Henry Moore
Romancing the standing stones
If Britain’s prehistoric monuments have had a magnetic attraction for generations of artists, it is perhaps because they have long…
The squalid afterlife of artists' estates
Artists’ legacies were once controlled by opportunist collectors or vengeful harpies. Stephen Bayley meets the German lawyer trying to civilise the process
This large Tate Modern exhibition is cruel to Wifredo Lam
‘My painting is an act of decolonisation,’ declared Wifredo Lam. These are the first words you read on entering the…
Are the British too polite to be any good at surrealism?
The Paris World’s Fair of 1937 was more than a testing ground for artistic innovation; it was a battleground for…
'Uproar!' The Ben Uri gallery punches above its weight
Last year saw the centenary of the London Group, a broad-based exhibiting body set up in a time of stylistic…