“Courbet,” curated by Laurence des Cars, Dominique de Font-R�aulx, Gary Tinterow, and Michel Hilaire. Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris. Through Jan. 28. Schedule: Metropolitan […]
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Jonathan Jones dubs “Renaissance Siena” souvenir shop kitsch
“Renaissance Siena: Art for a City,” National Gallery, London. Through Jan. 13. A hundred paintings, sculptures, drawings, manuscripts and ceramics are presented. Artists include Matteo […]
Another niminy-piminy titillating survey..or the most brilliant show of the season?
“Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now,” curated by Martin Kemp and Martin Kemp. Barbican Art Gallery, London. Through Jan. 27. In This is […]
Ghent MFA presents “British Vision”
” British Vision: Observation and imagination in British Art 1750-1950″, curated by Robert Hoozee and Andrew Dempsey. Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium. Through January […]
Painting modern life (from photographs)
“The Painting of Modern Life,” curated by Ralph Rugoff. Artists include Richard Artschwager, Robert Bechtle, Vija Celmins, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Thomas Eggerer, Judith Eisler, […]
John Everett Millais at the Tate Britain
“Millais,” curated by Alison Smith and Jason Rosenfeld, Tate Britain, London. Through Jan. 13. Schedule: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam February 15 to May 18 , […]
Larry Poons exuberance
“Larry Poons,” Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London. Through Oct. 1o. Jonathan Jones in The Guardian reports: “There’s life and exuberance here that younger painters, who are […]
Doom, gloom, Hume
“Gary Hume: American Tan,” White Cube Mason�s Yard, London. Through Oct. 7. In The Guardian, Jonathan Jones pummels Hume’s latest exhibition at White Cube. “All […]
Georg Baselitz retrospective at the Royal Academy
“Georg Baselitz,” Royal Academy of Arts, London. Through Dec. 9. In The Guardian, Adrian Searle reviews the Georg Baselitz retrospective at the Royal Academy: “For […]
Hirst on Bacon
The Guardian’s column, “Great Interviews of the 20th Century,” features an edited extract from “Interviews with Francis Bacon” by David Sylvester. The interviews took place […]
Sylvia Plath was a teenage artist
Eye Rhymes: Sylvia Plath’s Art of the Visual, edited by Kathleen Connors. Oxford University Press, USA (October 26, 2007) Francesca Martin reports in the Guardian: […]
Beryl Cook: 80-year-old self-taught painter’s work condemned by critics
“Beryl Cook,” Baltic, Gateshead, through September 2. In the Guardian, Adrian Searle asserts: “Beryl Cook: a homely, round name for a woman we imagine is […]
Sublime portraits of children reveal evolving notions of innocence
Children in portraits were first depicted only as tiny adults, little devils, or props to their parents’ ambition. In The Guardian, Antonia Fraser charts the […]
Critics weigh in on Stella Vine’s show at Modern Art Oxford
In the Telegraph, Richard Dorment reports a change of heart about Stella Vine’s paintings: “Imagine my amazement to discover that there is something to Vine’s […]
Georges de La Tour�s long forgotten nocturnes exhibited in UK
Laura Cumming in The Guardian: �It scarcely seems possible that there could be any old masters left to rediscover, yet so it is with the […]
