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Constable, Gainsborough, Turner and the Making of Landscape
It’s as British as you can get; three towering Royal Academicians painting that most British of genres; landscapes. Intimately housed in the Academy’s gilded John Madejski and Weston Rooms, the...
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Manet: Portraying Life
“Who is this Monet whose name sounds just like mine and who is taking advantage of my notoriety?” said Edouard Manet in 1865. I remember being a fledgling art history student and thinking almost the...
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A boy named Stü
There are a number of ways to spend a Saturday morning after a heavy Friday night and one of them is to be given a blank sheet of paper and instructed to draw something. Something? Urgh. Anything?...
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Spotlight: Nick Bethell
In the first Spotlight interview of the year, Ed interviews the academically rebellious painter, sculptor, etcher, clothing designer and friend, Nick Bethell Ed Lines: How would you describe your...
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Simple Pleasures
Perhaps not since the Warhol retrospective has the shop at Tate Modern done such a roaring trade. Pop Art is as its name suggestions – popular art. Thick, black outlines, primary colours,...
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Meeting Mona
It has been one of those things I’ve been embarrassed to admit when asked, but a bit like watching Schindler’s List, reading The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and going to Liverpool, another thing...
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Review: Rich Hall’s Hoedown – Soho Theatre
“So what do you do?” Rich Hall asks a male member of the audience in the front row. “Heavy construction.” Comes the reply. “Oh, the best kind.” Says the grumpy, ex-North Carolina man. Then, after...
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It’s grim up north: Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life
“I’ve a one-track mind; I only deal with poverty. Always with gloom” LS Lowry LS Lowry is an opinion splitter; to some he’s the greatest painter of working-class, industrial Britain; to others he’s a...
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Roger Waters at Wembley: The Wall Tour 2013
No expenses were spared for the latest instalment of Pink Floyd founder, Roger Waters’ The Wall Tour, which came to Wembley Stadium last night. By the end of opener In The Flesh? the 80,000 seater was...
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Farewell to Houghton Revisited: a great comeback
When you think of all time great comebacks what do you think of? In sporting terms you might think of the Ryder Cup last year or Oracle Team USA winning this year’s Americas Cup. Great comebacks in...
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