Fancy a European art break with fewer crowds? Try one of these five cities Forget queuing at the Louvre or the Uffizi. You’ll find a fresh perspective on everything from medieval to modern art in places like Lille, Verona and Zurich The Guardian - UK · May 26
‘Money! Glamour! Yachts! But not for me!’ Adrian Searle relives 30 glorious years as our chief art critic He has faced off a fighter jet, ridden a motorised bed and even been a Beano character. As he steps down, the mighty Guardian critic delivers his insights, confesses his crimes and relives his highs The Guardian - UK · Mar 31
Don’t blame Maria Balshaw for Tate’s failings. Its lack of ambition goes much deeper Tate stresses its departing director has ‘diversified’ the collection, but it has hidden its treasures and let its galleries slide into insulting incoherence – and visitors have voted with their absence The Guardian - UK · Dec 12, 2025
Sean Scully: Mirroring review – how can a rectangle contain so much suffering? If you find the fields of colour that Scully has been painting for four decades tranquil, then you haven’t been looking closely enough The Guardian - UK · Oct 10, 2025
Shrinking audiences, a cash crisis and rivals on the rise: what’s gone wrong at Tate? The museum group is struggling with its identity – while the National Gallery is not only thriving but expanding into modern art The Guardian - UK · Sep 12, 2025
Modernism from Cezanne to Australia in NGA blockbuster Rarely seen modernist masterpieces by the likes of Cezanne, Matisse and Picasso have come to Australia from Berlin's Museum Berggruen. AAP · May 29, 2025
30 Famous Paintings And Their Real-Life Locations By ‘The Cultural Tutor’ Have you ever seen such a beautiful painting you wished you could crawl inside of it? To be inside the world that Van Gogh, Cézanne, or Monet created? Bored Panda · May 9, 2025
The week in art: Goya to Impressionism; Linder: Danger Came Smiling – review Permitted to leave Switzerland for the first time, 25 masterpieces lovingly acquired by collector Oskar Reinhart surprise at every turn The Guardian - UK · Feb 16, 2025
Titanic talents, fabulous florals and a river of black stone – the week in art Emii Alrai homes in on Vesuvius, Cézanne and Manet go on display and Yayoi Kusama shows us her green fingers The Guardian - UK · Feb 14, 2025
30 Famous Paintings And Their Real-Life Locations By ‘The Cultural Tutor’ Have you ever seen such a beautiful painting you wished you could crawl inside of it? To be inside the world that Van Gogh, Cézanne, or Monet created? The post 30 Famous Paintings And Their Real-Life Locations By ‘The Cultural Tutor’ first appeared on Bored Panda. Bored Panda · Jul 12, 2024
Maud Le Pladec: 27 Perspectives review – dizzying deconstruction of a Schubert symphony A loose, casual dance based on an artist’s interpretation of a Cézanne painting via a Pete Harden score is full of ideas that often feel out of sync The Guardian - UK · Oct 31, 2023
RB Kitaj review – kaleidoscopic collage-paintings haunted by the Holocaust The weight of history hovers over this American postwar figurative artist, with an increasing focus on the experience of Jews The Guardian - UK · Oct 24, 2023
The Guardian - US · Jul 11, 2023 ‘Bastion of the super-rich’: inside a New York billionaire’s private museum A collection of art, featuring pieces by Picasso, Lichtenstein and Cézanne, has been kept secret for years but for select members of the public, the door is slowly being opened
The Guardian - UK · May 15, 2023 Kaye Donachie: Song for the Last Act review – painted women who refuse to sit still and be pretty Flawed, preoccupied and animated, Donachie’s vivid portraits intrigue and charm in a lively exhibition; Gwen John feels anaemic by comparison
The Week · Mar 31, 2023 After Impressionism review: ‘incontestable masterpieces’ at the National Gallery The story of the great changes that occurred in painting in late 19th and early 20th century France is “probably the most frequently told” in all art history, said Mark Hudson in The Independent. The period produced “some of the most genuinely popular art ever created”, giving us Cézanne, van Gogh,…
Evening Standard · Mar 22, 2023 After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art at the National Gallery review: an artistic explosion This was a time when art really was everything everywhere all at once
The Guardian - AU · Mar 17, 2023 Five Great Reads: why some books are beyond help, plus arguments about happiness and apples Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Imogen Dewey
The Guardian - UK · Mar 16, 2023 ‘Nobody has ever been astonished by an apple’ – sorry Cézanne, but still lifes are dull as hell A vase with some pears? A jug with some bananas? Cutlery? Are you kidding? Painters of still lifes have a lot to answer for – and today’s new breed would be better off tackling air fryers or discarded Deliveroo packaging
The Guardian - UK · Feb 8, 2023 ‘I’m going to get a beating’ – artist Peter Doig on taking on Cézanne, Renoir, Monet and more Once Europe’s most expensive living painter, Doig is feverishly trying to finish 10 new works that will hang alongside some old masters. No wonder he isn’t getting any sleep
The Guardian - UK · Jan 6, 2023 Giorgio Morandi review – sublime still lives shimmer with mystery and joy Humble, haunting and deeply enigmatic, these masterful paintings resist obvious symbolism to show us the poetry of the everyday
The Guardian - UK · Nov 11, 2022 Brueghel’s Cambridge carnival and modernism’s female pioneers – the week in art Turner prize winner Elizabeth Price digs into Scottish industrial heritage, the Royal Academy heads back a century and Kettle’s Yard teams up with the Fitzwilliam – all in your weekly dispatch
The Independent UK · Nov 10, 2022 Art from Microsoft founder Paul Allen sells for $1.5 billion Works by artists including Cézanne, Seurat, and van Gogh sold for a record-breaking $1.5 billion during the first part of Christie’s two-day auction of the late Microsoft co-founder Paul G
Evening Standard · Oct 3, 2022 The Standard View: After the 45p U-turn, Truss and Kwarteng must get back to business The U-turn came, and it felt all but inevitable. This morning, Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng announced that the proposed 45p tax cut — one of the centrepieces of his mini-Budget — was to be reversed.