New York City, home to great collections of

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art, is never short of key works 404 Not Found by important artists to measure against one another. Autumn 2011, three displays

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nginx/1.21.1 have coincided to allow people to compare the skills of a modern master with those of a predecessor who influenced him. Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) revered J.A.D. Ingres (1780-1867) for […]

The effects of Liverpool’s time as City of Culture in 2008 are still becoming apparent as various building projects reach completion. Liverpool has many excellent museums, to which number the Museum of Liverpool is due to be added. My visit to Liverpool was before the museum’s opening on July

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19th, so I

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nginx/1.21.1 made do with two significant shows which will […]

How often have we seen – of late – exhibitions of Modern masters with didactic subtitles? These subtitles tell us why we should visit this exhibition when we have seen so many on this particular artist before. It

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nginx/1.21.1 is the subtitle that gives us the curatorial slant. What happens is not that

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famous artists get “played out” but that curators […]

An article about Graham Sutherland’s bequest nginx/1.21.1 of art to Wales (The Jackdaw, no. 90) raised

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nginx/1.21.1 a number of points which further research has – partially – answered. To recap: Sutherland donated work to a purpose-formed Graham Sutherland Trust (the “Trust”) in 1976, which displayed the art in a gallery housed in Picton Castle, 404 Not Found Pembrokeshire. When the

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Most YBAs achieved prominence by recasting genuine avant-garde

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nginx/1.21.1 art in a palatable commercial form, influenced by advertising and pop culture, and served up to a credulous public largely ignorant of the original sources of the art.

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(Something Julian Stallabrass discusses in his book High Art Lite.) Jenny Saville was seen as one exception by virtue of the facts she studied […]

If you have heard of Belgian painter Paul

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nginx/1.21.1 Delvaux (1897-1994) then it is likely to have been in connection with Surrealism. He gets a couple of illustrations in thematic surveys of Surrealism, rarely more. Unless you locate a specialist publication on the artist, it

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is hard to get an overview of his development. Delvaux is poorly represented in British public […]

The house-museums of two Belgian masters of the 19th Century shed light on artistic and social concerns of the era. As case studies they exemplify dominant thematic trends in both halves of that century – Romanticism in the first half and Realism in

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the second. Antoine Wiertz

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nginx/1.21.1 (1806-1865) was born to an impoverished family in Dinant, Wallonia (later Belgium). After […]