ReviewBooks
Grand mural projects: a vital chapter in British art history
In her book, Lydia Hamlett unpacks the literary, cultural and political significance of “the animated wall”
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Off with her head! Infrared technology shows how a 15th-century French king used a paintbrush to replace one wife with another
Francis I of Brittany had his first wife painted over in a medieval prayer book before giving it to his new spouse, research at Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum shows
ReviewBooks
Biography of the artist John Nash—victim of the Younger Brother Syndrome—redresses the balance
Book shows that John Nash was a remarkable artist overshadowed by his elder sibling, Paul
NewsStolen art
Coronavirus might be limiting our travels but one painting is still on the move (somewhere)
Terry Frost's work, which was last seen on a train between London Euston and Crewe, joins a long list of disappearances associated with public transport
BlogDiary of an art historian
What can mysterious markings in stone teach us about British art?
Research for a new book begins with a pilgrimage to find prehistoric rock art in northern England
FeatureArtist interview
Turner Prize nominee Helen Cammock on Baroque music and marginalised histories
The UK artist's solo exhibition at London's Whitechapel Gallery explores the lives of 17th-century Italian female composers
ArchiveExhibitions
Manchester gets first comprehensive retrospective of Wyndham Lewis in 40 years
The founder of the Vorticist movement has often been under-appreciated or misunderstood, which the Imperial War Museum North seeks to rectify
ArchiveExhibitions
Tate Britain banks on David Hockney retrospective to pull in the crowds
More than 150 works will be on display, from those executed early in his career to some whose paint is still wet
ArchiveJoshua Reynolds
Reynolds' experiments a real headache for conservators
Research project and show explain conservators’ difficulties with his techniques
ArchiveJohn Singer Sargent
The deeply educated John Singer Sargent
The painter’s portraits of his diverse circle of polymathic friends
ArchiveRestitution
Restitution begins at home: an insider's analysis of the issue of restitution
The return of objects is not just an international issue—domestic claims can also offer insights.
ArchiveTate Britain
Folk art at the Tate Britain
Next Summer's exhibition focuses on the boundaries between the mainstream and the marginal
ArchiveBooks
Books: Rossetti’s fascination with women’s bodies and Dadd’s madness are investigated
Libido and lunacy — the obsessions of two artists
ArchiveArtist interview
Interview with Bryan Ferry: “I can’t imagine life without art around me”
The Roxy Music founder on being taught by Richard Hamilton, his love of British artists and viewing at speed
ArchiveFrancis Bacon
Francis Bacon claims his place at the top of the market
As Tate Britain opens a major travelling retrospective, we examine the factors underpinning the meteoric rise in prices for the artist’s work and reveal the identity of his biggest collectors
ArchiveArt market
British Art Auction report: The Bacon and Freud effect
Recent record prices for the two artists boosted results for 20th-century British works, while Victorian art struggled
ArchiveHenry Moore
High-tech study could give new life to Moore’s Arch
Development in conservation of sculpture
ArchiveArt fairs
London's British Art Fair, this year a smaller yet still sophisticated affair
The 20th edition drew wealthy local collectors, such as the Duchess of Westminster and Tim Rice, but it remains a niche event
ArchiveWilliam Hogarth
Books: Is Hogarth the greatest British artist of all time?
Three publications illuminate the subject of Tate Britain’s major exhibition
ArchiveAuctions
November auctions of Important British Pictures failed to stir collectors leaving slew of unsold lots
Collectors shunned many 18th- and 19th-century works
ArchiveMedia & broadcast
Arts on television: Bacon and Hirst as the bad boys of British art
Damien Hirst has carried on Francis Bacon’s violent legacy of “guts, blood and spunk”, but denies any direct inspiration
ArchiveBritish Art
Contemporary auction sales report: British art makes the great leap
Bacon and Auerbach triumphed as Sotheby’s and Christie’s racked up impressive totals
ArchiveAuctions
British and Irish art sale a subdued affair
Some big collectors have stopped buying and bidders held back
ArchiveCollectors
Major British collector buys Sisley for a charity
Greetings card millionaire Andrew Brownsword adds the Impressionist to his collection
ArchiveArt market
Dealers are the art world's real brains
Let us face facts. Before money changes hands, unfamiliar art is not studied because nobody thinks it is worthy of study
ArchiveJohn Singer Sargent
Sargent’s women: portraits at the Adelson Galleries
On view 12 November - 13 December
ArchiveSouth Korea
C.I. Kim's monumental Britart collection encourages the consumer to dream
The businessman, collector, and artist whose department store museum includes work by Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin and Anthony Gormley
ArchiveExhibitions
Constable to Delacroix: British art and the French Romantics
Now on at Tate Britain
ArchiveTate Britain
Days like these: Tate triennial of contemporary British Art 2003
Theme-less this year, the triennial covers all generations and styles
ArchiveArtist interview
Interview with Richard Hamilton: Product Displacement
As major exhibitions of his work open in London and Barcelona, Hamilton explains his boredom with the London art scene, the lineage of his tables and his undying debt to Marcel Duchamp
ArchiveTurner Prize
The Turner Prize 2002
Tate Britain gives a taste of the work of these young artists
ArchiveArtist interview
Interview with Gary Hume, king of the narrative-free form: “I want to abolish ‘me’ in my art”
Hume talks painting, why he relishes a little melancholy, and what he learned from working with Stella McCartney
ArchiveArt market
BADA Survey shows 2000 was an excellent year for dealers
Highest ever turnover for members
ArchiveInterviews
Interview with dealer Bernard Jacobson on his change of taste and direction
From Great British to stellar American art
ArchiveArtist interview
Interview with Julian Opie: Creating logo people
The relationship between the generic and the individual is at the heart of Opie’s digitally produced work
ArchiveBridget Riley
Bridget Riley makes waves at new Tate Britain retrospective
Riley was heavily involved in the curation of this exhibition alongside Paul Moorhouse
ArchiveWalter Sickert
A new book explores Walter Sickert's innovative work as a printmaker
Nine years of painstaking research have revealed this technically adventurous side of the artist’s work
ArchiveLeslie Waddington
Leslie Waddington: Always a Londoner
The welcome failure of droit de suite, the impact of internet sales and the future of YBAs and optimism about the Tate Modern
ArchiveDavid Smith
David Smith's 'Wagon II' bound for the Tate
Purchased from artist's family, it is the most important work still in private hands
ArchiveLucian Freud
Collector Paula Cussi funds Tate Freud exhibition despite export altercation
“Lucian Freud: Some New Paintings” is on show until 26 July
ArchiveCollectors
Collector profile: William Berger. The instant, $20 million, English art collection
Former mutual-fund manager pits his taste against the market
ArchiveArt market
This book by a leading London dealer analyses the market from 1970 to the present
Christopher Wood's "The great art boom"
ArchiveExhibitions
A trio of nineteenth-century paintings shows in England
The Tate Gallery proposes the origins in British art of Symbolism, the Royal Academy investigates fairies, while Manchester presents women Pre-Raphaelites
ArchiveTate
The stuff that dreams are made of: Symbolists, Pre-Raphaelites, and Fairies dominate British exhibitions
The Tate Gallery proposes the origins in British art of Symbolism, the Royal Academy investigates fairies, while Manchester presents women Pre-Raphaelites
ArchiveAntiques
London and Provincial Antique Dealers Association’s annual show report: Grosvenor House size, Olympia prices
Affordable, good quality and diverse, it brings in all sorts
ArchiveTate
A Tate for the 21st century: decisions to be made about the collection remaining at Millbank Tate
With modern foreign art to be displayed at Bankside, opinion within the Tate differs as to how the story of British art should be told
ArchiveTate
Bringing British art out of the shadows
Sir Edwin Manton, an American-based insurance executive, has donated £7 million ($11.2 million)
ArchiveArt market
A tribute to British savvy in a time of increasing globalisation
London may be the loser in the end, but the Brits brought it on themselves
ArchiveCollectors
The Queen Mother is revealed to be a top collector
Clarence House is full of treasures
ArchiveTate
Important eighteenth-century and contemporary additions to Tate’s holdings
The works are from the Oppé collection and Janet Wolfson de Botton
ArchiveCollectors
Turin shows hidden talent at Castello di Rivoli as six top collectors go public this month
Italy's most discreet city has always favoured the avant-garde, now celebrated by this elegantly cerebral exhibition
ArchiveJune 1994
R.B. Kitaj: 'I begin my working day by falling asleep in front of my easel'
The American artist, who has lived in Britain for the past 35 years, is celebrated with a large exhibition at the Tate
ArchiveBooks
Technique anglaise: Current trends in British art
A useful, market-serving guide to thirty young British artists
ArchiveBritish Art
What's on in New York: The British are here
As well as Hoffmann, Kruger, Sultan, Koons, Klein and Kandinsky
Commentcoronavirus
Britain's young artists had a hard time before the pandemic. What will happen to them now?
Inequality is rife in British society, not least in the arts, where decades of ‘class-cleansing’ policies have made it harder than ever to be an artist and designer
Scott Reyburn