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The legacy of a myth maker: Joseph Beuys
Joseph Beuys is considered by some as the most important of the post-war period – a sculptor, performance artist, teacher …
‘I loved the bugs, they were gross.’ Ruby, age 9: Turner Prize
On a yearly basis it provokes passionate debate on the state of contemporary British art, and it has inspired other …
Artists, art, the media and the public: Turner Prize
Each year the Turner Prize generates media coverage which gives only a fleeting idea of the practice of the artists …
The Sun is God: J.M.W. Turner
New York-based video artist Paul Pfeiffer explains how J.M.W. Turner’s painting Light and Colour (Goethe’s Theory) – The Morning after …
The artist and the Emperor: J.M.W. Turner
During a visit to Tate Britain, Katharina Fritsch finds herself ‘sucked into’ the allure and eccentric character of J.M.W. Turner’s …
Other worlds: William Blake
William Blake famously declared: “I must create a system or be enslaved by another man’s.” His visionary work is on …
‘Ever was it thus for the muse’: By Lauren John Joseph
A society doyenne excitedly shares the news that she is to sit for the portraitist John Singer Sargent
The grandfather of satire: William Hogarth
William Hogarth was one of the founders of a satire that led all the way to the modern comic book …
Unfinished? Repulsive? Or the work of a prophet?: Late Turner
Turner’s late pictures were dismissed as works of ‘senile decreptitude’ and questioned even by his most devoted disciple, John Ruskin. …
River of dreams: Turner Whistler Monet
When the seventeenth-century diarist John Evelyn described London as a ‘Hellish and dismall Cloud of SEA-COALE’, he was one among …
JMW Turner: Rise to Fame
Ongoing
Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851) was the star of his generation of artists. His bold paintings challenged convention and still …
