10+ hour, 34+ min ago  (541+ words) In the artistic pecking order, illustration long languished behind what were seen as the fine arts, even though it was the one art form that most of us would come across every single day. Not unrelated to the status issue,…...

1+ week, 14+ hour ago  (10+ words) The Spectator Also by Paul Wood...

3+ week, 6+ hour ago  (299+ words) Old Masters has long been yesterday's story as contemporary art surged away from the dusty legacy market. But just as the interesting times that we live in have investors heading for gold in their droves, the value of certainty is…...

2+ week, 11+ hour ago  (141+ words) Tate Britain, until 27 September It was the room full of Nocturnes that sent me "Night has no form," Whistler wrote, "gloom no length or breadth." And so he worked "by feeling, not by sight". Perhaps this is why the Nocturnes…...

2+ week, 17+ hour ago  (519+ words) The Spectator Witty, lyrical and abstract: the art of Kurt Schwitters Looking for Mr Schwitters Little Toller, pp. 512, "20 Aged ten, Jennifer Potter moved to Ambleside in the Lake District and was soon aware that one of the giants of modern…...

3+ week, 17+ hour ago  (1412+ words) When Donald Trump said Keir Starmer was "no Winston Churchill," it is unlikely he was thinking about painting. Not many think of the Great Wartime Leader as an artist. We all know about Churchill's prodigious ability to write " he wrote…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (610+ words) The Ukrainian Cultural Forces" headquarters is situated above a non-descript shopping centre not far outside downtown Kyiv. The walls are covered in artwork and photographs, sculptures are dotted about; the initial impression is of a university arts department, though with…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (544+ words) Artistic freedom is often treated as a modern ideal, but history tells a more complicated story. From religious patronage to online outrage, the boundaries of art have always been shaped by power. Speaking at a recent event hosted by the…...

3+ week, 13+ hour ago  (160+ words) With its Masters of Art range, the maker of luxury writing instruments produces dedicated series of limited-edition pens that channel the spirit of great artists, interpreting their works through intricate and skillful craftsmanship. There are five designs in the new…...

3+ week, 11+ hour ago  (116+ words) Venice, until 22 November You'll leave feeling that you've spent five hours trapped in the basement of Italy's most patronising headshop In a show heavy on emerging artists from the developing world, it's depressing to single out established figures based in…...