Art | Exceptional prints, paintings, sculpture and more
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October 2020In Cennini’s Libro dell’Arte, the Tuscan painter’s handbook for aspiring 15th century artists, you will find the story of ‘a yellow colour called ochre’. -
February 2020Whether pasted on disused buildings or installed hanging from gallery ceilings, Swoon's intimate, local portraits are a modern hagiography.
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February 2020In 'Hawks and Falcons', C.F. Tunnicliffe's last great suite of prints, his chivalric subjects are 'the burnished, steely hard bird of the nobility.’
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February 2020Sidney Nolan painted many Australias: by air, up creek and desert dune, but it is a dread landscape that provides the setting of 1971's Dust.
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February 2020Like Rojas' original, Picasso's 'La Célestine' is a tale of selfish indulgence and bawdy lewdness; we are made voyeurs of its sordid dealings.
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February 2020In 'Our Late Familiars', the undead of Palermo's catacombs are reawoken in Ian Wilkinson's haunting imagery and words from writer Iain Sinclair.
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February 2020For Rothenstein, the rooster's cock-of-the-walk braggadocio and the violent impress of cut timber became the prism for musings on predation.
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February 2020Piper's eccentric etched survey of Brighton is a suite entirely out of sorts – and a perfect summation of the resort's architectural mélange.
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February 2020The sculptures of Andrzej Kuhn are like Sumerian votives. Capsuled within them is a wit and warm-heartedness that was the soul of all he made.
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July 2018In swaggering views of stately homes and resurrectional portraits of crumbling church ruins, the art of John Piper draws power from its sense of place.
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July 2018In paintings like 'Reflections', Brendan Neiland reveals the dance of light that plays out daily on the glass towers and cars that dominate our landscape.
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July 2018With its rich conflation of mythological resonances, Joe Tilson’s cryptic wooden 'Caerdroia' labyrinth offers the viewer little by way of illumination.