Edward Lucie-Smith considers the 301 Moved Permanently phenomenon of ‘The Late Style’ in relation to Rembrandt and Turner The new Rembrandt show at the National Gallery in London (until January 18th) is clearly
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It is a populist homage to one of […]
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It is understandable that, in current circumstances, major arts institutions should try to ally themselves with the more anarchic, contrarian elements in contemporary
culture. Perhaps this is
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contemporary visual arts, committed as these still are to the myth of ‘avant-gardism’. One problem that immediately presents itself, of course, is
that this myth is […]
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Edward Lucie-Smith discovers that their tribute to
Kenneth Clark is not as complimentary
as the Tate thinks it is The Tate Britain show
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devoted to Sir Kenneth Clark – ‘Lord Clark of Civilisation’, as he came
to be called – was
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a
slightly strange phenomenon. It defined a whole tract
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Edward Lucie-Smith admires
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an ambitious exhibition
but with the reservation that something is missing The big new exhibition of Matisse’s Cut-Outs at Tate Modern in London is,
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certainly on the face of it, everything that a major museum of Modern and Contemporary Art should
be doing. It is beautifully