Jim Carrey’s art is yet more proof that Hollywood stars should avoid the canvas
Published 01 Sep, 2017 09:29am
Banksy’s ‘Girl with a Balloon’ comes top in a popular vote, despite its oversimplification of human emotion
Updated 07 Aug, 2017 12:46pm
A compelling show puts the battle for civil rights in a brutal, brilliant new light
Updated 24 Jul, 2017 01:27pm
Piet Mondrian and the rest of the De Stijl movement were admirable idealists, but their work is joyless compared to
Updated 14 May, 2017 06:15am
The British Museum’s latest show brings together great pop and abstract expressionist images from the US.
Updated 07 Apr, 2017 07:20pm
Loving Vincent is a corny new biopic made from 62,450 hack oil paintings in Van Gogh’s style –
Published 29 Jan, 2017 06:34am
Star of Bethlehem rarely appears in Renaissance paintings. It does not appear to have interested 15th-century artists
Updated 26 Dec, 2014 10:47am
Yet this is not the only case of a cultural treasure whose true ownership is disputed.
Updated 06 Nov, 2014 10:10am
THE word Ming conjures up precious, fragile, beautiful things. “Man breaks priceless Ming vase” was a story to...
Published 12 Sep, 2014 05:50am
POSTCARDS can be sublime, or ridiculous, or make the sublime into the ridiculous. These days, there are holographic postcards, Banksy postcards, nostalgic postcards, you name it; but a huge proportion will always be garish colour photos of beaches that ar
Published 12 Feb, 2013 12:00am
THE reported destruction of two important manuscript collections by Islamist rebels as they fled Timbuktu is an offence to the whole of Africa and its universally important cultural heritage.
Published 30 Jan, 2013 12:00am
ONE hundred and fifty years ago the Swiss art lover and historian Jacob Burckhardt published his master work, The...
Published 11 Jul, 2010 12:00am
THE thieves who raided the Paris Museum of Modern Art have taken an astonishingly well-selected group of connected...
Published 22 May, 2010 12:00am
THE sale of Picasso`s 1932 painting Nude, Green Leaves and Bust for a new world record price of £70m is a tragedy....
Published 08 May, 2010 12:00am
LONDON Your face is reflected in the black mirror, but you can`t see yourself clearly. Your features swim in and out...
Published 20 Sep, 2009 12:00am
