Undaunted And Unsentimental
A distrust of politicians and a compassion for working people drove Honoré Daumier's work
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
The Aesthetics of the Everyday
We shouldn’t be satisfied with solidly utilitarian coins, stamps and the dreaded “street furniture”. Good design can be incredibly heartening
The Apotheosis Of The Ego
The Viennese Secessionists brought a pioneering introspection to their bold new portraiture
Oz the Great and Powerful
The little-known Australian landscape tradition depicts a vast, brutal yet magical country
Tate Hangs Back
The Tate's chronological 'hang' of its pictures has ruffled some feathers but it means art lovers can now fly on their own wings
Play It Again, Jan
Music is integral to the National Gallery’s Vermeer show, perfectly representing the arc of life itself
From Kitsch to Cool: Picasso and Modern Art
Marxist art historians cherish his Cubism, but he later became a true artist, not just a modernist
Bernard Hailstone: The Artist And His Sitter
In 1945, Bernard Hailstone painted my father, the journalist Louis Heren, in the Burmese jungle. This is the story of their long friendship
The Space Behind Them
A contemporary of the British Pop Artists, Patrick Caulfield is at last coming into his own
Heavenly Bodies
Murrillo's reputation has fallen in the face of modernist trends. Two new shows have reestablished his genius as a master of the numinous
Lords of the Prairie
George Catlin both recorded and idealised the vanquished native Indian tribes of North America
Painter of the Strenuous Life
Where Edward Hopper found isolation, George Bellows heard the hubbub of modern America