Tabish Khan interviews Landscape Painter David Wightman
19 April 2015 • Tabish Khan
A landscape painter who uses wallpaper as his medium
Tag: Painting
REVIEW: Sonia Delaunay @ Tate Modern
17 April 2015 • Tabish Khan
Colour comes alive in beautiful paintings
Tabish’s Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
13 April 2015 • Tabish Khan
A beetle collection, atmospheric video, pained portraits, gunshots and glow in the dark painting
REVIEW: Y.Z Kami: Paintings – making visible the invisible
12 April 2015 • Staff
Gagosian Gallery, London
The Iranian artist strives to depict the inner lives of his subjects in portraits that are as modest as they are monumental
Tabish’s Top 8 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
7 April 2015 • Tabish Khan
This week’s top 8 features Rubens, Onomatopoeia, moonlit landscapes, miniature sculptures, assault rifles, Surinam, emerging artists and internet cables.
REVIEW: Richard Diebenkorn – colour and line under a Californian sun
23 March 2015 • Mark Westall
Sackler Wing, Royal Academy, London
Richard Diebenkorn’s figures may have lacked psychological depth, but his Ocean Park paintings are still endlessly involving, where fields of colour pull you to the horizon
Tabish’s Top 6 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
23 March 2015 • Tabish Khan
This week’s top 6 features Henry Moore, beautiful birds, an organic calendar, a minotaur, voyages to the Arctic and surrealism
Don’t be sniffy about oil-rich states, @ArtDubai funds the world’s most radical art
19 March 2015 • Staff
It’s not all super-yachts and spending binges: Art Dubai, which begins this week, is opening doors for some of the most marginalised voices in art
Tabish’s Top 8 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
16 March 2015 • Tabish Khan
This week’s top 8 includes stairs, portraits, hunting, organic forms, the surreal, a shipwreck and soap
Joshua Reynolds: the overlooked master who revolutionised British art
10 March 2015 • Mark Westall
An exhibition coming to London’s Wallace Collection paints the artist in a new light: as a daring Enlightenment portraitist who became the victim of his own boldness
REVIEW: Leon Golub: Bite your Tongue – so terrific, the paintings roar off the walls
4 March 2015 • Mark Westall
Serpentine gallery, London
Late Chicago-born artist has never had the retrospective he deserves in US – perhaps galleries are afraid, for his work is as shocking as it is powerful
Tabish’s Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
1 March 2015 • Tabish Khan
This week’s top 5 includes landscapes, a horse drawn car, bright paintings, subtle photography and war
Rarely seen painting of Wellington set for National Portrait Gallery exhibition
27 February 2015 • Mark Westall
Portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence was commissioned by society hostess Lady Jersey in 1829 and left unfinished following the artist’s death
Me me meme: artists’ selfies paint the full spectrum of self-obsession
28 January 2015 • Mark Westall
Turner Contemporary, Margate
From a Van Dyck self-portrait to Ian Breakwell’s heartbreaking valediction as he lay dying of cancer, this absorbing show sorts the vain from the glorious
Why Belgium’s plagiarism verdict on Luc Tuymans is beyond parody
23 January 2015 • Mark Westall
One of Europe’s most influential painters has been found guilty of plagiarism. Even if you don’t buy that Luc Tuymans’ painting of a newspaper photo was parodic, it is still a part of his career-long interrogation of all images
2015: the year ahead for art in London
3 January 2015 • Staff
Rubens | Goya | Barbara Hepworth | Joseph Cornell | Ai Weiwei | Charles And Ray Eames | Eddie Peake | Alexander Calder
Tabish’s Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London over Christmas
22 December 2014 • Tabish Khan
This weeks top 5 features architectural photography, Rembrandt, Constable, witches and crashing waves.
The best art books of 2014
7 December 2014 • Staff
The year saw contemporary art stars prove thoughtful in print while Whistler and Rembrandt drew perceptive analysis
Georgia O’Keeffe flower painting sells for record-breaking $44.4m
21 November 2014 • Mark Westall
Final bid for Jimson Weed/White Flower No 1 more than doubles the previous highest price paid for a work of art by a woman
David Hockney: ‘When I’m working, I feel like Picasso, I feel I’m 30’
17 November 2014 • Mark Westall
David Hockney last year left Yorkshire and returned to his home in the Hollywood Hills after a series of traumatic events in his personal life. Here the 77-year-old reveals how California has rejuvenated him, before answering questions from Observer readers and cultural figures
Conscience and Conflict: British Artists and the Spanish Civil War review – rousing, revelatory and poignant
16 November 2014 • Mark Westall
Pallant House, Chichester
How did British artists respond to the war that so famously inspired Picasso? This exemplary show is the first devoted to finding out
Tabish’s Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
16 November 2014 • Tabish Khan
This week’s top 5 features volatile liquids, criminal tattoos, expressive portraiture, melting faces and upside down people.
Michael Williams, Eoin McHugh, Christopher Orr: this week’s new exhibitions
15 November 2014 • Mark Westall
From Michael Williams’s psychedelic canvasses in London to Christopher Orr’s first solo show in Scotland, Skye Sherwin and Robert Clark find out what’s happening in art around the country
Daniel’s Value and Ideas #43: More Snoop Dogg than Snoop Doig
14 November 2014 • daniel barnes
It all started when Snoop was staying at the Palazzo Versace hotel, where a Versace cushion was the inspiration for a painting that would later sell on eBay for $10,200.