Coloured By His Emotions
Howard Hodgkin reduces portraiture to something more essential than physical form
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
From The Seine To The Outback
An exhibition of Australian Impressionism demonstrates the movement’s global reach
Coastwise Lights
All roads lead to Sussex for exhilarating exhibitions in new or revamped galleries
American Revolutionaries
Abstract Expressionism was the US’s first truly original native style, bringing new scale and energy to art
All Things Banal And Beautiful
William Eggleston is the godfather of colour art photography and a master of everyday America
Portraits Tame, Wild and Savage
Family and friends matter to David Hockney, while George Stubbs was fascinated by the animal kingdom
The Artist As Connoisseur
Van Dyck, Reynolds and Degas had more than talent in common: they also collected other painters’ work
From Studio To Dark Room
From the birth of photography, its practitioners and artists fed off each other to find new ways of seeing
Baffle Us — But Don’t Bore Us
Conceptualism was briefly a vital response to commercialism in modern art. Then it ran out of ideas
Il Faut Cultiver Notre Jardin
Monet was the first among many artists of his era who combined horticulture and painting
Painting The World Red
A Tate exhibition successfully argues that the empire transformed British art as much as British trade
A Visit From Goya
The National Gallery’s show is a treat for a country with a modest collection of the artist’s work