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Fresh-Fruit-Crumblehi

Howard Hodgkin
;
Fresh Fruit Crumble
, 2015

16
Sugar

lift aquatint with hand

colouring
Paper and Image: 36 x 42 cm
Edition of 30, Cristea Roberts

Fresh-Fruit-Crumblehi

Howard Hodgkin
;
Fresh Fruit Crumble
, 2015

16
Sugar

lift aquatint with hand

colouring
Paper and Image: 36 x 42 cm
Edition of 30, Cristea Roberts

Taking Sickert Seriously

Who was the greatest British painter of the 20th century? Plenty, I suppose would make a case for David Hockney, Lucien Freud, Howard Hodgkin and Stanley Spencer. I’d rank Paul Nash, Eric Ravilious, Ben Nicholson, Patrick Caulfield and Frank Auerbach higher, but I suspect few would share my view. Perhaps that leaves the most plausible candidates as Francis Bacon, Bridget Riley and Walter Sickert – and Sickert (1860-1942) gets by far the least attention these days.

Howard Hodgkin, Through a Glass Darkly, 2015–16, oil on wood, 10 3/4 × 16 1/4 inches (27.3 × 41.3 cm) © Howard Hodgkin Estate.

Opening tonight Howard Hodgkin: LAST PAINTINGS

Gagosian are showing an amazing exhibition of Howard Hodgkin’s final works entitled Last Paintings. One of Britain’s most celebrated contemporary painters, Hodgkin composed powerful, expressive works that, while nominally abstract, bring representation, gesture, and affect into urgent relation.

fig-2: A New Art exhibition every week for 2015

Fifteen years ago a Soho warehouse hosted 50 art events in 50 weeks. Writers, architects and even milliners exhibited alongside both famous, and unknown, artists. As the project is revived for 2015, Nicholas Wroe talks to its curators about capturing the spirit of the times

VIDEO : Save The Arts

The Save the Arts campaign is organised by the London branch of the Turning Point Network, a national consortium of over 2,000 arts organisations and artists dedicated to working together and finding new ways to support the arts in the UK.

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