Roger Mayne review – destitute kids running wild in the battered, bombed-out city
Courtauld Gallery, London ‘Take our picture, mister!’ they shouted at Mayne, who not only captured children on the streets of postwar London, but helped turn photography into an art form
February 2024
Frank Auerbach: The Charcoal Heads review: war-scarred faces on paper that has taken a pounding
These portraits from the dark postwar years have been so reworked that the paper is often gouged through. The results feel as war-damaged as his family – yet still thrillingly alive
September 2023
Claudette Johnson: Presence review – subtle swipes at the exploitative modern masters
The artist brilliantly questions depictions of non-white figures by such revered painters as Gauguin and Picasso – but there’s a quiet power to her new work that leaves theory behind
July 2023
Michael Kauffmann obituary
Art historian who, as director of the Courtauld Institute, oversaw its move to Somerset House and a huge rise in its student numbers
June 2023
Camera brings ‘unprecedented clarity’ to restoration of historic artworks
Technology will allow conservators to use fluorescence to identify and remove ageing varnish with total accuracy
May 2023
Lost treasures and ancient ruins: Anthony Kersting’s Middle East – in pictures
The British photographer documented stunning architectural gems in Iraq – many since destroyed by Islamic State
March 2023
It’s a Constable – but not the one you know – in a new show of forged art
Lucie Rie: The Adventure of Pottery; Peter Doig – review
February 2023
Other lives
Richard Verdi obituary
‘I’m going to get a beating’ – artist Peter Doig on taking on Cézanne, Renoir, Monet and more
December 2022
Other lives
Conrad Atkinson obituary
Other lives: Artist who highlighted contentious sociopolitical issues in his work
November 2022
Notebook
A city that can’t save an institution like Simpson’s is no sort of city at all
Rachel Cooke
A greedy London landlord threatens the centuries-old haunt frequented by Dickens and Thackeray
August 2022
Portrait of Wyndham Lewis needs revision
‘Fit of pique’: lost vorticist masterpiece found under portrait by contemporary
June 2022
Notebook
Philip Larkin’s profound and beautiful poetry sent me back to the classroom
Rachel Cooke
The exam board that dropped the poet and others from the curriculum has overlooked their effects on young minds
May 2022
Edvard Munch: Masterpieces from Bergen review – a magical misery tour
Zombie workers and sexual hang-ups: how Edvard Munch foresaw our lonely lives – review
February 2022
‘Mental illness is not a joke’: London gallery under fire for Van Gogh gifts
Souvenirs at Courtauld Gallery exhibition include ‘emotional first aid kit’ and ear-shaped eraser
Van Gogh: Self-Portraits review – ghostly encounters with greatness
This small, unmissable show of 16 of Van Gogh’s 37 surviving self-portraits, all made during the last four years of his life, reveals a world of extreme feeling
‘Magical, mysterious and electrifyingly intimate’ – Van Gogh: Self-Portraits review
Toothless, bearded, haggard, injured, shaved, well fed, on the mend, jaunty, natty … this superb show cascades through the many faces of Van Gogh – and reveals the anguished brilliance that lay beneath
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