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Peter Blake

March 2024

  • Peter Blake at his home in London

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Pop art pioneer Peter Blake: ‘I wasn’t really a swinger. I never did any drugs’

    The pop art pioneer on not being taken seriously, his first solo sculpture show, and why his Beatles’ Sgt Pepper cover has been a mixed blessing

November 2023

  • Georg Baselitz, Rosa aus Luxemburg, 2002

    Art Weekly newsletter
    Georg Baselitz’s erotic prints and the world’s best photography portraits – the week in art

  • Peter Blake at his home in London in 2022.

    ‘A kind of magic’: Peter Blake says possibilities of AI are endless for art

September 2023

  • Lady Sleeping in Bed won the Hugh Casson drawing prize at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2006.

    Rachel Heller obituary

    Artist whose vivid works were lauded by the likes of David Hockney and Maggi Hambling

December 2022

  • ‘I’m a venal narcissist’ … Comedian Leo Reich

    2022 in Culture
    Through the looking glass: Guardian portraits of the year – in pictures

    From Steve-O and Samantha Morton to nudists and pigeon racers, here are the Guardian and Observer’s best portraits – and features – of the year

July 2022

  • Fred Cuming enjoyed painting scenes of wet weather.

    Fred Cuming obituary

    Landscape artist and teacher who captured the beauty of England’s cloudy and rainy skies

June 2022

  • detail from Eavis portrait

    Peter Blake portrait of Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis unveiled

    Painting unveiled at Worthy Farm during 2022 festival on English pop artist’s 90th birthday

May 2022

  • Peter Blake in his studio in Hammersmith, London.

    Jarvis Cocker edits the Observer New Review
    Bringing order to the chaos of reality… Jarvis Cocker interviews six collectors

    What impulse unites a collector of ceramic cats with someone who gathers broken records or sweet wrappers?

May 2021

  • Peter Blake

    On my radar
    On my radar: Peter Blake’s cultural highlights

  • British artist Sir Peter Blake

    Just get a sketchbook out: top UK artists lament decline of drawing classes

October 2020

  • Timelessness by William Eggleston.

    Stella McCartney launches A-Z sustainability manifesto

    Project aims to find meaning in age of greenwashing in collaboration with artists such as Jeff Koons

June 2020

  • Peter Blake at the Royal College of Art, in 1955.

    Class of 2020: a Weekend magazine graduate special
    ‘We were let loose’: my art school days, by Peter Blake, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Steve McQueen and more

    Eight great British artists on graduating, and their advice for the Class of 2020

February 2020

  • Peter Blake<br>English pop artist Peter Blake, 17th June 1963. (Photo by Tony Evans/Getty Images)

    Sex, guns and pop art: the forgotten pioneers who shook up British culture

    From 1958 to 1962, the Danad collective lived and worked together in a bohemian commune. Peter Blake and others involved tell the story as a new show reveals the art

October 2019

  • Artist Jann Haworth.

    With a little help from her friends: Sgt Pepper artist’s all-female version

    Jann Haworth, who had a key role in the Beatles’ album cover, explains why she’s righting a wrong in a mural that is coming to the UK

August 2018

  • Love by Peter Blake, one of six works donated to the nation by Frank and Lorna Dunphy.

    Damien Hirst's former manager gifts artworks under tax scheme

  • Branscombe in Devon

    Weekend magazine creativity special
    'Being here changes you as a person': artists on the British walks that inspire them

June 2018

  • The Monarch of the Glen by ​Edwin Landseer

    The Monarch of the Glen to go on display at National Gallery

    Painting of stag will be shown alongside Peter Blake version owned by Paul McCartney

November 2017

  • Peter Blake’s handmade cover for Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There.

    Stars donate handmade book covers for House of Illustration charity auction

    Fundraiser includes Peter Blake’s vision of Alice Through the Looking-Glass, Neil Gaiman’s Fahrenheit 451, Peter Capaldi’s Metamorphosis and more

July 2017

  • Frank Ocean at Bonnaroo festival in Tennessee

    The ten best things to do this week
    The 10 best things to do this week: Lovebox and Painting Pop

    Frank Ocean tops the bill at the east London festival, while Abbot Hall in Cumbria celebrates Blake, Hockney, Boty and more

June 2017

  • Peter Blake’s Self Portrait with Badges, 1961

    Anatomy of an artwork
    Peter Blake’s Self Portrait With Badges: a pop-art riff on portraiture

    The 29-year-old took Thomas Gainsborough’s The Blue Boy and made it socially and culturally relevant to the 21st century
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