A Marvel saint, spiky sculptures and banana drama – the week in art Saint Francis and his 800-year-old robes come to the rescue, AI collides with craft and Japanese tradition meets pop art The Guardian - UK · May 5, 2023
Renaissance masterpieces leave Italy for first time to show in Paris The collection includes a portrait of Saint Sebastian considered one of the finest works by Andrea Mantegna The Guardian - UK · Dec 4, 2022
‘Lascivious’ Titian masterpiece set to fetch up to £12m at auction Painting by 16th-century old master regarded as among greatest achievements of his career The Guardian - UK · Oct 21, 2022
Renaissance masterpiece by Titian expected to fetch up to £12 million at auction One of the finest versions of the artist’s work, Venus and Adonis, is set to appear at Sotheby’s London auction on December 7. The Independent UK · Oct 21, 2022
Lucian Freud review – the Queen, Leigh Bowery and the artist’s ex-wives stand brutally revealed From the monarch to the naked performance artist who was living with Aids, Freud paints life lived in the face of death, with an unsentimental eye for human tendernesss The Guardian - UK · Sep 27, 2022
Ways of Seeing at 50: an icy blast of a book about male voyeurism, art, capitalism and so much more I still remember the shock when I first saw John Berger’s television series, Ways of Seeing, in 1972. In the years before Australia had colour television BBC art programs were often screened at the Art Gallery of NSW. (Previously the same venue had shown Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation). The Conversation · Jun 7, 2022
Bargain Price: Titian Masterpiece Snapped Up For 83 Dollars Now Sold For Nearly 5 Million A painting by famous Renaissance artist Titian once traded for just less than 80 dollars in London over 100 years ago, has been auctioned for a whopping 4.8 million euros (4.9 million dollars) in Austria – which is more than three times higher than experts’ estimations. Zenger · May 16, 2022
Renaissance Masterpiece Believed Lost For 150 Years Set To Fetch Over 1.6 Million Dollars At Auction The painting is estimated to go for up to 1.5 million euros (1.62 million dollars). Zenger · Apr 25, 2022
Frank Auerbach: Unseen review – art that restores a sense of what it is to be human Holocaust orphan Auerbach’s stunning paintings – tangled masses with hints of horror – have been brought out of the Tate’s vaults to resonate poignantly in a time of war The Guardian - UK · Apr 1, 2022