Art

Food for Thought

The saga of the Rex Whistler restaurant and Tate Britain

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The literal gaze of James Tissot

An exhibition of the work of the 19th century painter James Tissot has opened in Paris

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Orson Welles and Lockdown’s Radio Renaissance

I’m listening to art made by dead people rather than DIY lockdown productions

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How I discovered Art and Architecture

Daniel Johnson reflects on the great discoveries of his youth

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How the Arts Council abandoned England

The Arts Council are using the pandemic to reward their cronies rather than saving art

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Sex and violence: Titian’s Metamorphoses

The National Gallery are reopening their headline 2020 exhibition on 8th July

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Mystery of the tainted cache

The Gurlitt affair looked as if it might be unpicked but it has proved intractable

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Unwelcome rise of a truly awful artist

Jacob Willer examines the extravagant claims made about an Italian painter hailed as the saviour of revivalism

Features
Sebastian Horsley: equal parts Byronic dandy, Dickensian grotesque and Wildean poseur

Alexander Larman remembers his time with the decadent author, Sebastian Horsley, 10 years after his death

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How artivism captured the ICA

If the Institute of Contemporary Arts wants to be in the vanguard of “social justice” activism should it retain its charitable status?

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