The virtuoso known as “the guitarists’ guitarist”
Jeff Beck Jeff Beck, who has died aged 78, was widely regarded as one of the greatest rock guitarists of all time, A “dazzling and...
Your chance to be a girl with a pearl
LIKE OKUK, the Mauritshuis in The Hague is famous for its frontispiece. Unlike us, however, it has only one Girl with a Pearl Earring ,...
The Arts as a bulletproof political investment
IT’S been another tough year for the Arts and—at least in prospect—2023 doesn’t look any easier. Audiences and visitor numbers have been slow to recover...
Painting a momentous year
WHEN it came to the life of the late Queen, two things mattered more than most: service and horses. Therefore, any attempt to capture her...
Alex Katz: Gathering
Alex Katz, “one of the most singular painters in American art,” had to find his own way, Katz, a 95-year old New York City native...
What’s Going On The Rubell Museum
“Opening a new contemporary art museum in a city not known for contemporary art would at first seem foolhardy, if not downright reckless,” said Robin...
Bernd & Hilla Becher Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
“For the photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher, the aesthetics of a tipple or water tower rivaled anything that a curator could set on a pedestal,”...
Michal Worke at Goodman Gallery
The female figures in these paintings by the Ethiopia-born, Tel Aviv-based artist Michal Worke exude a sense of calm and purpose. Even when they are...
Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott
More than half a century after Robert Colescott adopted a provocative new style, his paintings “continue to make people nervous,” Working with little support from...
reviews an exhibition in a private gallery: Joel Meyerowitz
Since the 1960s, Joel Meyerowitz (b.1938) has been one of the foremost photographic chroniclers of American life, capturing the streets, landscapes and ephemera of his...
American Silence: The Photographs of Robert Adams
The National Gallery’s new Robert Adams retrospective is “one of the most moving and important exhibitions at the museum in a long time,” “American Silence,”...
A hidden Van Gogh self-portrait
Researchers at the National Galleries of Scotland have discovered what is almost certainly “a previously unknown self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh”, A routine X-ray scan...
A classic 1990s cathedral
England’s modern cathedrals tend to be “creations of the eras in which they were conceived”, – from the Gothic revivalism of Liverpool’s Edwardian cathedral to...
Exhibition of the week Vivian Maier: Anthology
This show marks the first time that the photography of Vivian Maier has ever been shown in the UK, said Sarah Kent on The Arts...