The Hayward’s survey of contemporary painting proves that the medium is thriving – with the figurative artists perhaps edging that little bit ahead
Alistair Sooke and Simon Schama take on tour-guide duties in a series of new 30-minute films. But how satisfying can the Tate on the telly really be?
Displaced from his home in the Colombian Amazon, Abel Rodríguez draws on his memories to document its flora and fauna
Child prodigy he was not – but works from the painter’s youth in Leiden show that he soon made up for lost time
The first UK show dedicated to the Finnish painter reveals an artist fascinated with questions of image and identity
The British artist returned time and again to the Swiss city, recording majestic Alpine landscapes that still take travellers’ breath away
The artist saw himself as an exotic outsider, and his voyage to the Caribbean in 1887 as a transformative experience
The American Impressionist’s singular body of work is as hard to classify as ever
Monet’s hidden art collection goes public in an ambitious exhibition at the Musée Marmottan
Wilhelm Hansen amassed his impressive collection, now showing at the Musée Jacquemart-André, in only two years
The scientific teaching models in George Loudon’s collection are as beautiful as they are fascinating
This overdue survey gives some sense of Pissarro’s extraordinary range
‘A method matters little,’ Rousseau maintained, ‘one tries everything’. See the full span of his dizzyingly diverse practice in Copenhagen this winter
Artist collectors, it emerges, are driven by a mix of motives from compulsion to emulation
Painting isn’t dead, but it has been prematurely buried in Tate Modern’s Boiler House
The word has become a catchall term for environmentally-conscious art. It’s more specific than that
The sculptor would have approved of the Musée Rodin’s sensitive refurbishment
‘It is impossible to paint a portrait’, claimed Giacometti, but that didn’t stop him trying whenever he went home to his family
The bad boy of Britart opens his new gallery with a show devoted to abstract painter John Hoyland. Is he trying to atone for his artistic sins?
The MP for North Islington is that rare thing at Westminster, a politician who is actually interested in the arts
A joyless preference for the verbal over the visual at the Venice Biennale
The Fondation Custodia in Paris steps into the spotlight
December 2024
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Christina Riggs
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This episode explores an ancient funeral stele, Marie Antoinette’s breast bowl, and how digital technologies are helping to preserve Egyptian heritage sites
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Why has Tate consigned painting to history?
Painting isn’t dead, but it has been prematurely buried in Tate Modern’s Boiler House