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Was this ‘angelic’ Italian artist a fascist?

    Was Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964) a fascist? I ask the question because the Morandi exhibition, which has arrived at the Estorick Collection in north London, does not — the paperwork for the event could hardly be more gushing or unquestioning — but also because devotees of Morandi’s art seem to find his work so angelic. Perhaps […]

    Spain and the Hispanic World: one masterpiece is worth the entrance fee alone

      To prepare myself to see Spain and the Hispanic World at the Royal Academy, I did that thing psychologists advise where you write down the first words that come into your mind. As an aficionado of Spanish art, spewing the words was easy. I closed my eyes and out they poured: “Dark, passionate, exciting, Catholic, […]

      From Rome to Madrid — the January exhibitions worth braving Ryanair for

        Happy new year, art lovers! Now we have the pleasantries out of the way, let’s get down to tackling that scarring and insistent question that lurches up from our depths during the first hesitant steps of every new annus: where in the Devil’s name can we get a decent art fix in January? As every […]

        How it all went wrong for Damien Hirst

          I was thinking the other day about an art book I want to write. Its title would be: Art — How It All Turned to Shit. Every word in the book would be true. Playing a central role in the tragedy would be Damien Hirst. Among art critics working today, I do not believe Hirst has […]

          Zanele Muholi, Tate Modern

            Zanele Muholi’s self-portraits are magical

            London Grads Now, Saatchi Gallery, London SW3

              A lucky few graduates seize the moment — with work that questions nature and identity

              Titian exhibition: watch Waldemar Januszczak’s tour of the National Gallery’s masterly show

                Titian’s Poesies are united for the first time at the National Gallery, and Waldemar Januszczak is awestruck

                Cranach: Artist and Innovator, Compton Verney

                  Were Lucas Cranach’s paintings of naked ladies there to titillate — or to educate? By Waldemar Januszczak

                  Gordon Parks, Alison Jacques Gallery; Khadija Saye, 236 Westbourne Grove, London

                    A resonant photography exhibition focusing on segregation in 1950s America turns the lens on to the everyday cruelties and injuries of racism

                    Art in lockdown review: the National Portrait Gallery; Art Basel; David Zwirner gallery; Hauser & Wirth

                      The challenges of lockdown have been met with varying degrees of success online by art galleries, says Waldemar Januszczak