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, […]

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 […]

Zanele Muholi’s self-portraits are magical

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

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

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

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

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

It is the first of the big guns to open its doors, and what treasures await