Edward Burra’s The Snack Bar: grasping the energy of a seedy urban world
The painting is full of innuendo and violent undertones: mouths, furs, servings of meat
April 2017
Queer British Art 1861-1967 review – strange, sexy, heartwrenching
From Man Ray’s portrait of Virginia Woolf to Orton’s library book collages and Noël Coward’s dressing gown, this vital survey is bursting with fascinating stories
November 2014
Picasso's fight against fascism – and the British surrealists who followed him
A new show of UK artists’ responses to the Spanish civil war is dominated by Picasso’s emotive works, but British artists also realised Spain was an ominous testing ground for future conflict, writes Jonathan Jones
September 2012
Neil Libbert: the faces that came to define an era – in pictures
An exclusive preview of the National Portrait Gallery’s solo exhibition of photographs by Neil Libbert, which celebrates his 55 years as a photojournalist
November 2011
Edward Burra, transgressive painter of English countryside and dockside bars
His cabbages are sinister and his barmaids are transvestites. Edward Burra's watercolours of rural England and Marseilles and Harlem street life are wonderfully distorting. Kathryn Hughes admires a major retrospective
October 2011
Edward Burra – review
The first Edward Burra show in 25 years suggests that the once marginalised painter was touched by genius, writes Rachel Cooke
Edward Burra at Pallant House Gallery - in pictures
Edward Burra's unconventional watercolours are appearing in the first major exhibition of his work for 25 years. We take a look at some of his finest paintings
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Edward Burra, Grayson Perry and Peter Blake – the week in art
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October 2008
A watercolourful life
Review: Edward Burra - Twentieth-Century Eye by Jane Stevenson This book is a fascinating, eccentric look at a fascinating eccentric, says Heather Thompson
December 2007
Those grubby letters are a gift
Edward Burra proves a biographical treat, while Bush provides us with few surprises
