The latest news and comment on artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
December 2022
‘She drunkenly asked me to do her a rudeness’: painting’s most baffling titles
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s beguiling works have titles like Tie the Temptress to the Trojan and Alabaster for Infidels. So what if they don’t connect with what she paints – she’s hardly art’s first blabbermouth …
November 2022
Art Weekly newsletter
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s enigmatic figures, sensational seeds and a heavyweight four-way face off – the week in art
Mysterious portraits of fictitious people, the roots of colonialism and the works of Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon and friends – all in your weekly dispatch
December 2020
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Fly in League With the Night review – a vivid art of evasion
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye review – ‘she’s turned Tate Britain on its head’
May 2019
Ghana shakes up art's 'sea of whiteness' with first Venice pavilion
In curving galleries designed by David Adjaye, artists are putting Africa firmly on the biennale map
December 2016
The Guardian view on Brexit and the arts: a backlash against the modern
Editorial: The right wants to believe that contemporary art is a liberal-elite conspiracy. Five million visitors to Tate Modern will tell you different
October 2015
British Art Show 8 review – a long haul in art’s touring caravan
There are fine morals, but few thrills in this eclectic, 42-artist wandering exhibition
July 2015
The 16-year-old who infiltrated the art world – in pictures
When he was 16, Josh C Wright went on a mission to photograph all of Britain’s art stars in their studios – and they welcomed him with open arms. Here’s the best of his series A Portrait of the Artist by a Young Man
June 2015
The best original photographs from the Observer
Original Observer Photography: May 2015
Dual Serpentine exhibitions celebrate explorers of the human form
May 2015
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: artist in search of the mystery figure
The British artist’s work is increasingly sought after, and this week marks her first major London show. But who are the people in her paintings?
December 2013
Turner prize 2013: daft, disarming Prouvost sees off game-changer Sehgal
Adrian Searle
Turner prize 2013: who gets your vote?
October 2013
Turner prize 2013 – review
The Turner prize 2013 exhibition: go on, get involved
Turner prize 2013: the nominees' work – in pictures
Not an artist? You can still have an artwork in the Turner prize exhibition
May 2013
Charlotte Higgins on culture
Venice Biennale diary: dancing strippers and inflatable targets
Jeremy Deller throws a raucously drunken party; Marc Quinn's blow-up Alison Lapper is in the critics' crosshairs, while money grows on trees
April 2013
Turner prize 2013: a shortlist strong on wit and charm
Turner prize 2013: the shortlisted artists' work - in pictures
