A Victorian medium guided by the dead was an unlikely pioneer of modernism
Monthly Archives: July 2016
Tate Modern: Bigger isn’t always better
The Tate’s vast extension is high on good intentions, but low on excitement. It’s all a bit too polite
Worlds of possibility
Abstraction is back, and female artists are in the vanguard of the revival
Visions of paradise
Maria Merian’s 17th-century butterfly pictures are both stunning natural history and proof of a deep spirituality
Tate’s bad impression
We don’t need a £260m pyramid, says our art critic. We need a creative force like the Impressionists to break the grip of the art establishment