Canaletto masterpiece returns to Wales 80 years after it was hidden in slate mine
The Stonemason’s Yard, moved for safekeeping during WW2, is going on display at National Library of Wales
December 2023
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Volcanic prints, Mapplethorpe’s mates and Puerto Rico’s Palestinians – the week in art
The history of 500 years of print from Picasso to Emin, Robert Mapplethorpe’s portraits of his famous friends, and the Palestinian diaspora in Puerto Rico
September 2022
Canaletto masterpiece has starring role at the proclamation of King Charles
The painter’s view of Venice, now in St James’s Palace, once hung in George III’s bedroom
Linking Canaletto’s paintings of a fading Venice to current climate concerns seems a bit pointless – these stately home treasures already depicted decay
July 2021
Little Canaletto’s sordid city in the sky – Bellotto: The Königstein Views Reunited review
Bernardo Bellotto, the nephew and pupil of Canaletto, channelled his master’s Venetian magic into these five sublime views of a fortress in deepest Germany
January 2021
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Graphic Goya, perverse Lucas and the man who christened pop art – the week in art
The Spanish artist’s macabre images appear at a perfect time in the US, while Sarah Lucas creates a hurricane and Richard Hamilton gets a well-deserved survey
August 2020
Buckingham Palace art collection to go on gallery display for the first time
Masterpieces by Rembrandt, Van Dyck and Canaletto to be shown at Queen’s Gallery while palace is renovated
March 2020
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The dark side of Andy Warhol and Britain's side-road surrealists – the week in art
What we will see in the king of pop art’s mirror, British stand up to be counted and a rare Canaletto gets an outing
September 2017
Canaletto and the Art of Venice review – enigmatic artist blends into background
This well-informed documentary takes a welcome turn on its grand tour of the life of the popular Italian painter to focus on his remarkable agent, Joseph Smith
May 2017
Five of the best… new art shows
Judy Chicago, Canaletto and Marc Quinn: this week’s best UK exhibitions
The renowned feminist artist celebrates 50 years of Sgt Pepper’s, Venice is brought to life and a collection of macabre Georgian sculptures take over Sir John Soane’s Museum
November 2015
Is it a Canaletto or a Bellotto? Don’t ask an art historian …
Scholars fail to spot nuances in art as true connoisseurship dies out, says expert
March 2015
New exhibition of Canaletto's British paintings at Compton Verney gallery
Collection of pictures shows Italian artist’s view of ‘rule Britannia’ period of history
August 2014
Selfie-portrait of the artist: National Gallery surrenders to the internet
Art lovers don't like it but one leading gallery has given up trying to stop visitors taking snaps of themselves in front of the pictures
May 2014
Van Gogh's lodgings become art house – but is anyone at home?
Saskia Olde Wolbers' Artangel project creates a time-slip effect in the Brixton house once lived in by the Dutch artist in the 1870s
January 2013
Jonathan Jones on art
Bye bye, British high street. Can anything take your place in our art?
Jonathan Jones: With shops becoming a thing of the past, where will the painters of the future portray us milling, browsing and being seen?
September 2011
Observer TV reviews
Rewind TV: The Body Farm; Too Big to Fail; The Queen's Palaces; Billy Connolly's Route 66; Planet Dinosaur – review
The BBC have found a suitably preposterous successor to Waking the Dead while the sub-prime crisis gets the full-star treatment on Sky Atlantic, writes Phil Hogan
October 2010
Ai Weiwei: Sunflower Seeds; Canaletto and his Rivals
Venice: Canaletto and his Rivals
Venice: Canaletto and his Rivals – review
Jonathan Jones on art
How Canaletto and the Venetian artists light up the National Gallery
