How did a digital image become the third most expensive artwork ever sold by a living artist? Waldermar Januszczak on the inexplicable rise of ‘non-fungible tokens’
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Matejko: Conversations with God at the National Gallery
Jan Matejko’s Copernicus was a picture intended to galvanise a nation
Waldemar Januszczak on David Hockney at the Royal Academy
The artist’s iPad landscapes seem designed to cheer up the nation
Eileen Agar was more than just a surrealist
This action-packed exhibition reveals another side to the British artist
Waldemar Januszczak on The Making of Rodin exhibition at Tate Modern
Rodin’s casts buzz like bees, with a restless and temporary spirit — the best settle into the monumental and still
The Raphael Cartoons at the V&A review — these artworks may be our most precious
Finally we will be able to see how jaw-droppingly beautiful they are
Thought the Turner prize couldn’t get any dafter? It just did
Here we go again. Another year, another ludicrous, unfair and undemocratic Turner prize shortlist.
Waldemar Januszczak on Ugo Rondinone’s end of lockdown celebration show
Rondinone’s blue horses show a yearning for a lost past
Waldemar Januszczak on the feminine power of a textile art show
The Threadbare show is an intriguing window on the contemporary world — from a woman’s point of view
Frank Auerbach and Tony Bevan make us feel the thrill of stepping into a gallery
Stepping into an art gallery after the interminable months of screen-watching was more slap than hug. There was a sense of having to learn something afresh, like trying on new shoes or feeling your teeth after a visit to the hygienist. Those critics who have been making hay during the lockdown — readers of novels, […]