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Hockney bounces back, a Myanmar blockbuster and fantasy in the library – the week in art
RB Kitaj review – kaleidoscopic collage-paintings haunted by the Holocaust
March 2018
Anatomy of an artwork
RB Kitaj’s Plays for Total Stakes: graphic pop takes on the traditional
The American artist, inspired by Van Gogh and British pop art, creates a double-portrait of his friend David Hockney with Peter Schlesinger
August 2017
'No-talents': Artist RB Kitaj takes revenge on critics from beyond the grave
Memoir discovered among possessions after his death in 2007 to be published with preface by friend David Hockney
February 2013
RB Kitaj: an obsession with revenge
RB Kitaj paintings and drawings - in pictures
May 2012
Tate's new donated works – in pictures
Works by David Hockney, Jacob Epstein, Lucian Freud, R B Kitaj and Rachel Whiteread are among nine paintings and sculptures being gifted by philanthropists Mercedes and Ian Stoutzker
July 2011
Kitaj: Portraits and Reflections – review
Kitaj was always an outsider: an American in London, a figurative painter from a generation of abstract expressionists, a man with a deep reverence for the old masters amid the ephemera of Pop, writes Alfred Hickling
January 2010
Jonathan Jones on art
Did art critics kill RB Kitaj?
Jonathan Jones: Despite the intelligence and inventiveness of Kitaj's art, the critics were cruel. Did bad reviews drive him to suicide?
January 2008
Kitaj's restless relationship to Jewishness
Art & design blog
RB Kitaj showed us what we didn't want to see
December 2007
Christie's auction of The Collection of RB Kitaj
Personal gallery from Kitaj's kitchen wall goes on sale
October 2007
Art & design blog
In praise of ... RB Kitaj
RB Kitaj
February 2002
'I make art-love'
The painter RB Kitaj says that the savaging his work received from critics in 1994 killed his wife and forced him to return to America after 40 years in Britain. In a recent email correspondence with Stuart Jeffries, he discusses his first exhibition in this country since he left.
