Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines turned their backs on the London art world to create an art school with an outsize legacy
As an exhibition at the Royal Academy shows, the Impressionists were never more immediate or intimate than in their drawings
The artist has turned his attention to the same five sitters time and again across his 60-year career, to touching effect
The British artist’s scope and influence have long been neglected – but at the centenary of his birth, will a pair of exhibitions turn the tide?
An expanded catalogue raisonné of the artist’s prints sheds new light on her pioneering approach to colour and composition
A new biography reasserts the significance of the self-described ‘artist plantsman’ among his modern British peers
It was on visits to the Wallace Collection that the sculptor first became fascinated with the form of the helmet
A new biography of the Bauhaus artist and teacher shows that his influence can still be felt today
The museum’s fifth director presided over a difficult period of its history, but left it in a better state than he found it
The Tate’s blockbuster exhibition gives Modigliani’s reputation a welcome boost, prioritising his art over biography
The objects in Matisse’s collection shaped his revolutionary aesthetic, and inspired him to push beyond the boundaries of the European tradition
A new biography reveals an artist who, falling out of step with contemporary life, created an imaginative world of his own through art
An exhibition on Winifred Nicholson shows why her painting had such an impact on the work of her peers
December 2024
Emma Crichton-Miller
Apollo
Christina Makris
Christina Riggs
Rakewell
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