Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Courtauld Gallery
9 March 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
The Courtauld Gallery, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN.courtauld.ac.uk Instagram: @courtauld Three collectors led the 1932 foundation of The Courtauld… Read More
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Courtauld acquires major new work by Claudette Johnson, Blues Dance, 2023
1 December 2023 • Mark Westall
The Courtauld Gallery (Samuel Courtauld Trust) has acquired Blues Dance, 2023, by British artist Claudette Johnson (born 1959), one of the leading figures of the Black British Arts Movement.
The Variety in Van Gogh
16 February 2022 • Paul Carey-Kent
It’s no surprise that sixteen self-portraits by Van Gogh make a great show: with all due respect to Frida Kahlo and Cindy Sherman, I guess it’s a face-off between Van Gogh and Rembrandt for GOAT status in the genre.
Van Gogh Self Portraits – To be Blue.
3 February 2022 • Jasper Spires
The first thing to notice about Van Gogh Self-Portraits showing at the Courtauld is that there are always two Vincents… Read More
Van Gogh & Edvard Munch to lead Courtauld Gallery’s 2022 exhibition programme
13 December 2021 • Mark Westall
The first-ever exhibition of Van Gogh’s self-portraits over his career and a major collection of paintings by Edvard Munch, shown in the UK for the first time, will be the highlights of the newly reopened Courtauld Gallery’s 2022 exhibition programme.
The Courtauld to reopen after major modernisation project
16 December 2020 • Mark Westall
One of the UK’s greatest art collections will have a magnificent new setting when The Courtauld, one of the world’s… Read More
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London in January 2019
6 January 2019 • Tabish Khan
The Top 7 art exhibitions to see this week include Polyamory, Impressionism, a Porsche, drum majorettes, umbrellas, eruption and equality.
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see this week in London
10 September 2017 • Tabish Khan
Underwater photography, voyeurism, perfume, rural scenes, abstract masters, free runners and stained glass.
Paul’s ART STUFF ON A TRAIN #136: ‘Soaring and Diving’
18 November 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
Finding a new way in to your subject can make all the difference. After the war, Peter Lanyon (1918-64) emerged from constructivist roots to an engagement with Cornwall which sought to use abstract painting as a method to capture his bodily experience of the landscape – in his words, ‘I paint placeness’.
Tabish’s Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
18 May 2015 • Tabish Khan
This week’s top 7 contains witches, Victorian opulence, tomatoes, plasticine, drawing, kitsch and Russian battles.
Tabish’s Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London over New Year’s
29 December 2014 • Tabish Khan
This week’s top 5 features Turner, Schiele, Gothic art and literature, a history of Germany and the legacy of war.
REVIEW: Bruegel to Freud @CourtauldGall
30 June 2014 • Tabish Khan
The Courtauld Gallery has one of the best Impressionist collections in the world,…
Greatest Single Series of Drawings Ever Made on View at the Courtauld Gallery
18 February 2010 • Staff
Michelangelo’s masterpiece The Dream is one of the greatest of all Renaissance drawings. This complex work shows a nude youth being roused… Read More
East Wing Nine presents EXHIBITIONISM: The Art of Display at The Courtauld Institute of Art,
22 January 2010 • Mark Westall
The curators of EXHIBITIONISM at The Courtauld Institute of Art, are convinced that exploring different methods of display is a fundamental approach to appreciating contemporary art