Goya’s lessons for a world at war
Why the great Spanish painter’s work still resonates so urgently.
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The last crimes of Caravaggio
Within weeks of finishing his final painting, a murder scene, the artist was himself dead.
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When Europe went Angelica Kauffman mad
How the first female painter admitted into the Royal Academy became one of the great celebrities of her age.
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The perils of artists’ posthumous fame
Also this week: Philip Larkin’s “ecclesiastical journeys”, and general election date intel.
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Race across the landscape
In “Soulscapes”, contemporary artists of the African diaspora depict the lands that shaped them.
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Yoko Ono’s seriously playful art
Her Tate Modern retrospective delights me with its mixture of silliness and profundity.
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Frank Auerbach’s unsettling charcoal heads
These portraits have a haunted quality, the spectres of all the deleted images that went before.
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Tristram Hillier, England’s quiet surrealist
The painter’s immaculate pictures of an off-kilter world are works of concentration and contemplation.
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