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Comment | Time for a rethink: women artists were never meant to merely be canon fodder
4+ hour, 31+ min ago (528+ words) Comment | Time for a rethink: women artists were never meant to merely be canon fodder'The Art Newspaper Comment | Time for a rethink: women artists were never meant to merely be canon fodder Exhibitions pairing Munch with Paula Modersohn-Becker and Maria…...
Dóra Maurer, ‘towering figure’ of the Hungarian art scene, has died aged 88
5+ day, 14+ hour ago (241+ words) Selfportrait with Seven Twists, 2011 D'ra Maurer, the Hungarian painter, printmaker and filmmaker, has died at the age of 88. Her death was confirmed by the Sz'chenyi Academy of Literature and Arts, of which she had served as president since 2017. Her innovative…...
Show on fantastical neoclassicist Johan Tobias Sergel heads to Stockholm and New York
6+ day, 12+ hour ago (360+ words) The Year Ahead now available to purchase! Your essential guide to must-see exhibitions and events for 2026 Sergel's Cupid and Psyche (1787) captures the god's early rejection of the beautiful woman who would become his wife. The artist's earliest sketches for the…...
London show highlights how drawing was at the heart of Lucian Freud’s practice
2+ week, 5+ hour ago (416+ words) Further proof of the unflagging appetite for Lucian Freud exhibitions comes this month as the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in London opens the UK's most significant survey of the artist's works on paper to date, in an exhibition of 170 drawings,…...
Gwen John—the quiet ‘seer of strange beauties’—gets major show in Wales
2+ week, 4+ day ago (313+ words) Gwen John's Girl in a Blue Dress (around 1914-15) sold for "20 in 1935 Courtesy of Amgueddfa Cymru'Museum Wales The National Museum Cardiff is mounting a major survey exhibition of one of the most famous artists in its collection, Gwen John (1876-1939), nine decades…...
‘Sometimes it would get physical’: the photographer who captures humanity at close quarters
3+ week, 6+ hour ago (93+ words) Sometimes it would get physical: the photographer who captures humanity at close quarters'The Art Newspaper In your face: Boy in Yellow Shirt Smoking (1976) is a typical image by Cohen that is "simultaneously haunting and brimming with life" Myths and realities…...
‘The good, the bad and the ugly’: a short history of how artists depict the female body
3+ week, 6+ hour ago (236+ words) Dempsey is an independent scholar with a track record of wrestling gigantic themes (all the styles, schools and movements in Modern art, say) into something the general public wants to read. Most introductions to art history will start with the…...
How Martin Parr’s defining photobook made a splash 40 years ago
3+ week, 6+ hour ago (161+ words) The Last Resort, which will be republished later this year, is the subject of a new show at the late photographers foundation ... The exhibition at the Martin Parr Foundation will present criticism and correspondence around the works making and reception....
February Book Bag: from Tracey Emin’s conversations about painting to a catalogue of Lucian Freud’s drawings
3+ week, 11+ hour ago (96+ words) Tracey Emin pictured at the Royal College of Art in 1989 Courtesy of Tracey Emin Studio Still Life (1952) by Faiq Hassan, who is one of the artists featured in Alcove The Art Gallery of New South Wales plays host to her…...
Blonde ambition: book looks at the women who became Britain’s post-war cultural icons
3+ week, 6+ day ago (124+ words) " Lynda Nead, British Blonde: Women, Desire and the Image in Post-War Britain, Paul Mellon Centre, 240pp, 143 colour and b/w illustrations, "30 (hb), published 9 September 2025 " Beth Williamson is an art historian and writer. Her book A Cultural Biography of William Johnstone: The…...