Fake views of Shot Tower in Constable’s painting of Waterloo Bridge
Letters: Nick Rampley on the anachronistic appearance of a former South Bank landmark in the artist’s 1817 Thames skyline
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Gallery-goers take a twisted trip and history’s visionaries set sail – the week in art
Ceramics smash against abstract art, a trans painter tells her story and crop circles get a late reappraisal – all in your weekly dispatch
Radical Landscapes review – ‘Is loving green fields really wicked?’
It has some fabulous works, from a canal by Constable to a gnarled old tree by Tacita Dean, but this show’s radical v conservative thesis gets caught in the brambles – and the climate section is catastrophic
April 2022
Constable painting of Waterloo Bridge ‘transformed’ by conservation work
National Trust puts artist’s largest work on display at Anglesey Abbey in Cambridgeshire after removal of yellowed varnish
March 2022
In brief: Constable: A Portrait; Wivenhoe; The Enemy Within – reviews
A revisionist biography of the English landscape painter; a murder mystery in Essex; and an inventive counterfactual detective story
October 2021
Late Constable review – a thrilling enigma
Broken colour in Constable country
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Constable hits Stonehenge, Hogarth does Europe and witches get a makeover – the week in art
The volcanic, uncontrollable visions of a master reborn – Late Constable review
September 2021
Regency nip and tuck … ‘new’ Constable portrait reveals the artist’s diplomacy
The newly discovered painting of Emily Treslove, the artist’s neighbour, was redone to lose her double chin
August 2021
Autumn arts preview 2021
From Hokusai to Himid: the best art and architecture of autumn 2021
Hokusai explodes into Britain, Sebastião Salgado paddles up the Amazon, Lubaina Himid gets a retrospective – and an eccentric postmodern bath finally opens to the public
November 2020
Unknown Constables found hidden for 200 years in family scrapbook
Among ‘weird and wonderful objects’ are early works by one of Britain’s most important artists
October 2020
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Electric Turner, a giant octopus and quantum photogravure – the week in art
Ray Harryhausen’s epic monsters, Cornelia Parker’s surreally beautiful afterimages and JMW Turner’s energy-infused observations of his contemporary life – all in your weekly dispatch