Richard Holledge
15 January 2025
Apocalypse right now: visions of destruction and disaster in Northern Italy
A new exhibition recalls the litany of catastrophe that has afflicted the world for centuries
Read the full article26 December 2024
Ukraine’s painful beauty
A Kyiv gallery has defied Russian missile attacks to stage a visceral but tender art competition for artists under 35
Read the full article11 December 2024
Capturing space and time in Kazakhstan
Photographer Andrew McConnell set out to record cosmonauts in Kazakhstan – but found the local people infinitely more fascinating
Read the full article11 December 2024
Paula Rego’s nursery nightmares
Inspired by Goya, the Portuguese artist’s versions of Humpty Dumpty and Three Blind Mice are very much not for children
Read the full article26 November 2024
Antonio Calderara, the changing man
Once a painter of charming small-town scenes, Antonio Calderara radically departed into the abstract. But was this shift as sudden, or surprising, as it seems?
Read the full article25 September 2024
Rediscovering impressionist landscapes
Photographer Christoph Irrgang returns to the sites where masterpieces were painted to see how much they have changed
Read the full article18 September 2024
The gold and silver medallist
The innovative works of Norway’s Anna-Eva Bergman, realised in metal leaf, bear comparison with Rothko and Klimt
Read the full article11 September 2024
Norway’s forgotten genius
The small town of Bodø has achieved recognition as the European Capital of Culture 2024. Now, will it also recognise one of its own?
Read the full article31 July 2024
Living in the shadow of Chernobyl
Pierpaolo Mittica’s photos capture everyday existence in the ‘new Pompeii’ – close to the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident
Read the full article24 July 2024
The ego has landed
The man behind the masks and mysteries – James Ensor, the angry, vindictive, solitary genius of Ostend
Read the full article26 June 2024
Sergio Strizzi: the perfect moment
A new exhibition of the Italian photographer’s work captures the glamour of postwar Italian film
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The brightest false dawn
Early Soviet avant-garde art… and how it was crushed
Read the full article13 May 2024
Crescent tense: Photo London is a Turkish delight
Provocative and dramatic work from Turkey is among the highlights of this year’s Photo London
Read the full article17 April 2024
Clinical. Cynical. Homicidal.
Nikita Teryoshin’s chilling photos of ‘The back office of war’
Read the full article03 April 2024
Women in revolt: a shared language of radical abstraction
A new exhibition connects the work of over 50 women from across the world
Read the full article24 January 2024
Dancing at the crossroads: Dublin celebrates art from the ashes of the first world war
A hugely ambitious exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art shows how a burgeoning sense of nationhood gripped many European countries in 1918
Read the full article07 January 2024
When is a victory not a victory?
After the battle comes the reckoning – even for the winners
Read the full article24 December 2023
In full flow by the river
For one brief moment, five very different artists – including Van Gogh and Seurat – sought inspiration on the banks of the Seine
Read the full article02 December 2023
Defiant Kyiv’s art of war
As Russia bombs Ukraine’s cultural sites, the powerful work in the capital’s Biennial is scattered across Europe
Read the full article01 November 2023
Lisetta Carmi, the genius of Genoa
The refugee, who became an acclaimed photographer, had a lifelong fascination with outsiders
Read the full article06 September 2023
Fake views: the art of the counterfeiter
Technology is making forged paintings easier to identify, and giving us a chance to appreciate the art and craft of the counterfeiters
Read the full article16 August 2023
The prince of prints: Albrecht Dürer’s apocalyptic visions
The German artist was an immodest man with little to be modest about
Read the full article02 August 2023
Ragnar Axelsson: Ambassador of a melting world
The Icelandic photographer captures landscapes laid bare by receding ice caps.. and the haunted faces of locals who see their way of life ending
Read the full article19 July 2023
Homage to Orwell in Catalonia
The author lives on in a Barcelona conference which asks what he would make of the upcoming Spanish election and Franco’s legacy
Read the full article12 July 2023
Helsinki highlights art in search of a solution
The Helsinki Biennial event highlights how the climate crisis sparked Finland’s artistic and cultural awakening
Read the full article05 July 2023
Prisoner. Pervert. Pioneer. Is the Marquis de Sade misunderstood?
A new exhibition is based on the life and works of a man who took part in orgies of rape and torture and boasted he had written the “most impure tale that has ever been told”
Read the full article14 June 2023
No home from war: Images of conflict, survival and loss
Ivor Prickett’s photographs capture not just the horror of conflict but also the tender moments, the tedium and the weary suffering
Read the full article10 May 2023
Legends, lies and the labyrinth: Debunking the myth of the minotaur
A new exhibition explores whether Ancient Greece's labyrinth existed or was a confection of the imagination cultivated over the centuries
Read the full article26 April 2023
The boats that made the Med
A revelatory collection of Mediterranean antiquities makes for a quietly subversive exhibition in Cambridge
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Pictures from the shadows in Iran
After a brutal clampdown on their freedom, Iranian photographers have had to find new ways to express themselves
Read the full article16 March 2023
The art the Taliban couldn’t stop
Hundreds of Afghan artists have had to flee the country since the regime closed down galleries and threatened them with prison
Read the full article09 February 2023
The poet of matter
He was a quiet man who serially painted humble, dusty objects. So what makes Giorgio Morandi one of Italy's greatest arists?
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