Walter Sickert
The joy of George Shaw’s miserable paintings of a Coventry council estate
All good narrative painting contains an element of allegory, but most artists don’t go looking for it on a Coventry…
A new Ripper mystery: Why Patricia Cornwell won't stop hunting him
Why has crime writer Patricia Cornwell spent two decades and $6 million hunting Victorian London’s most notorious killer?
The first half is essential – the second much less so: Tate's Robert Rauschenberg reviewed
Robert Rauschenberg, like Autolycus in The Winter’s Tale, was a ‘snapper-up of unconsidered trifles’. Unlike Shakespeare’s character, however, he made…
Marlene Dumas at Tate Modern reviewed: 'remarkable'
‘Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting,’ Henri Matisse once advised, ‘should begin by cutting out his own tongue.’ Marlene…
'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…
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‘We’re still undecided. Can you come
back in late October?’
‘If you can remember the
1922 Committee you weren’t there.’
‘I don’t know what all
the fuss is about.’
‘This is the real enemy: Big Farmer.’
‘I like my drugs like I like
my Brexit — hard.’
‘There’s not much choice — every
one of them is either female or male!’
‘Higher... higher!’
‘I bet he used a plastic straw...’
