Art

Martin Creed: Still an angry artist

The Turner Prize winner's new exhibition, which reflects his often angry reaction to politics, is set in the carefully manicured gallery Hauser and Wirth, in Somerset

How Michelangelo's Taddei tondo got to Britain

Tracing the journey of the only marble by Michelangelo in Britain, which is a star attraction at the National Gallery's Michelangelo & Sebastiano show and is usually hidden away in a bulletproof box in a quiet corner of the Royal Academy's Sackler Landing

Howard Hodgkin's journey into the art world

Before his death this month, Howard Hodgkin was preparing the first ever exhibition devoted to his portraits. Paul Levy recalls the man who cared much more about his family and friends than being part of any movement

Why are we wasting valuable time with pop art?

The British Museum is staging a blockbuster ‘The American Dream: Pop to the Present’, but why does the scholarly institution want to demean itself by using pop art as a selling point 

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America after the Fall review: A show of highly significant paintings

The upstairs rooms at the Royal Academy are crisp and boxy – like a tidy argument. The curators of this show try to do something similarly neat and compacted with painting in America during the 1930s, tidying it away into themes and moments. It doesn’t work. Does that matter, though? No.