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Immerse yourself in the world of art with our captivating collection of articles, featuring artist profiles, art movements, exhibitions, and critical discussions that celebrate the creativity and inspiration of talented artists from various disciplines.
Alice Coltrane’s transcendent score
A biography of the spiritual jazz musician reveals the tension between her devotion to John and to a higher calling
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It’s hard being Tracey Emin
A major retrospective at the Tate Modern shows how the artist became the queen of the confessional – but is…
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Ai Weiwei: “Maybe I’m still seeking trouble”
The artist on China, censorship and valuing ideas over physical work
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David Lynch is only getting weirder
What was it that gave the director, who would have been 80 this month, an aura all of his own?
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Goya’s bleak midwinter
How the painter dropped a sliver of ice into his light-hearted tapestry designs for the Spanish royal family
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William Nicholson and the pleasure in the paint
The artist’s refusal to swim with the currents of his times cost him the reputation he deserves
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Bruegel and cake in the splendour of Vienna
I don’t know about the mind, but travel certainly broadens the arse
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Kerry James Marshall’s nuanced vision of black lives
The painter’s retrospective at the Royal Academy presents a sweeping challenge to Western art’s exclusion of African-American figures
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Jenny Saville’s human landscapes
The British artist has built a career bringing a new perspective to figures and flesh.
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The second birth of JMW Turner
This year marks the 250th anniversary of his birth, but it was a midlife encounter with two landscapes that created…
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David Hockney writ large
A huge retrospective gives the authorised version of this prolific artist’s career.
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Picasso’s mistreated muses
It was women who drove his art to its heights – and women who bore the brunt of his callousness…
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The Yoko Ono problem
As David Sheff’s new biography reveals, decades of suspicion aimed at the provocative artist, musician and widow have obscured her…
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Mickalene Thomas’s ode to Black joy
The American artist turns 19th-century paintings of women into celebrations of friends, family and lovers – with plenty of rhinestones.
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The Pierre Bonnard renaissance
The enigmatic French painter is seen by many as a league below Matisse. But a new book proves them wrong…
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The paradoxes of Frank Auerbach
The painter, who has died at the age of 93, was defined by his surfaces, but unconcerned with exteriors.
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Paul Gauguin’s art monster myth
Sue Prideaux’s biography of the unruly French painter shows his story was more complicated than that of colonial seducer.
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Van Gogh in the yellow house
The artist moved to Arles in 1888 full of optimism. The National Gallery’s major new exhibition, “Poets and Lovers”, selects…
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Francis Bacon’s vile bodies
The fusion of violence and pleasure defined the painter’s life and work.
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