Artist or monster? Mammoth new Gauguin show reckons with colonial legacy – to limited success
The National Gallery of Australia’s exhibition Gauguin’s World: Tōna Iho, Tōna Ao acknowledges the French master’s misdeeds in the Pacific – but just as easily omits or distracts from them
March 2023
After Impressionism: why has the National Gallery left female artists out of the picture?
Eliza Goodpasture
The gallery predictably frames its new exhibition about modern art around Cézanne, Gauguin and Van Gogh. But there were women painting at the time – so where are their contributions?
After Impressionism review – radical ideas and ecstatic sex from the edge of a new universe
Cézanne outshines Van Gogh, with Picasso his revolutionary pupil, in this absorbing hurtle toward modern art – smashing 500 years of tradition into cubist shards
Gauguin’s ‘child-wife’: in search of the muse that inspired a masterpiece
Who is the young girl in Paul Gauguin’s painting Spirit of the Dead Watching? On a trip to Tahiti, the film-maker and novelist Devika Ponnambalam finds out the troubling truth
June 2022
Revealed: why Van Gogh’s ‘empty chair’ paintings were never shown together
Sister-in-law hid one dedicated to Gauguin because of ‘anger at the French artist’s attacks on his former friend’
August 2020
Gauguin and the Impressionists review – a dream collection
Major impressionist show to open in London after four-month lockdown delay
June 2020
Van Gogh and Gauguin letter about brothel visit sells for €210,000
‘Exceptional’ correspondence sent from Arles in 1888 is bought by Van Gogh Museum
December 2019
TV tonight
TV tonight: Gaugin's genius and troubling history
With readings from Dominic West and expert testimony, this documentary asks if we can separate the art from the artist. Plus: the end of The War of the Worlds. Here’s what to watch this evening
October 2019
Lucian Freud: The Self-portraits; Gauguin Portraits review – violence and mania
Lucian Freud’s presence pulses menacingly throughout a thrilling show of self-portraits, while Gauguin, in a neighbouring blockbuster, sees himself as the suffering outsider
Gauguin at the National Gallery review – portrait of a troubling talent
This efficient documentary doesn’t shy away from the problems this post-impressionist star poses for art lovers today
Gauguin Portraits review – a buttoned-up, nervous and nude-light cop-out of a show
In a gallery that is elsewhere stuffed with naked white women, this exhibition’s avoidance of Gauguin’s unclothed Tahitians feels like an act of prudery – and even censorship
April 2019
It's a #masterpiece! What if Gauguin and Monet had been on Instagram?
Illustrator Jean-Philippe Delhomme has imagined how great painters would have fared on social media – and the trolling their work might have received
January 2019
2019 arts preview
Masters and machines: the best art and architecture of 2019
Van Gogh comes to London, Keith Haring scribbles over Liverpool, Jean Nouvel gets weird in Qatar, and the V&A hits top gear
July 2018
Roderic O'Conor: the Irishman who shared a passion with Gauguin
They met in Brittany, but only one left for Tahiti … Gauguin’s friendship with the Irish artist fostered a love of colour that left O’Conor streets ahead of his English-speaking contemporaries
June 2018
Courtauld's 19th-century masters to return to France
Works by Manet, Cézanne, Renoir and Gauguin exhibited in Paris for first time in 50 years
February 2018
The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller review – yours for half a billion
Picasso’s bolshy flower girl is just one of the masterpieces on show in London before this 1,600-strong collection sells at auction
July 2016
The return of Geoff Dyer: ‘I’m incredibly competitive’
Disappointment proves a fruitful inspiration for the author as he searches for transcendence around the world in his new book White Sands. But will he take frustration on the tennis court so philosophically?
February 2016
Treasures of modern art to be seen outside Russia for first time
Peter Duggan's artoons
'Drawing is like taking a line for a walk': the best Artoons – in pictures
