It’s easy enough to ignore the genre of portrait painting in the age of the camera, but the best examples do plenty apart from that. David Hockney carries on the tradition in his new show at the National Portrait Gallery, but it isn’t hard to find interesting portraits on elsewhere. Here are three…
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The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London this Summer
A cathedral in Ghana, a scorpion / sphinx, Rembrandt, graffiti, urban exploring and stars.
Continue Reading...The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London in May
Dalston, miniatures, Rembrandt, flooding, nature, colour and navigation.
Continue Reading...€160-million, newly restored Rembrandt unveiled for High Society
The Rijksmuseum, is presenting High Society. Over thirty-five life-size portraits of powerful princes, eccentric aristocrats and fabulously wealthy citizens by the great masters of art history, including Cranach, Veronese, Velázquez, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Sargent, Munch and Manet.
Continue Reading...ITV to screen Great Art.
This January, ITV will show Great Art, a five-part series exploring the life and work of the world’s most celebrated artists.
Continue Reading...The Top 6 Art Exhibitions to see this week in London
Gruesome puppetry, dancing, a great wave, rubens, rembrandt, a new gallery and British painting.
Continue Reading...The ‘Next’ Rembrandt has been unveiled in Amsterdam
A portrait of a man in black 17th-century clothing with a white collar and a hat was unveiled in front of a packed auditorium.
Continue Reading...Is America’s greatest art heist about to be solved?
There’s no romanticising the $500m Stewart Gardner Museum robbery of 1990. It was an attack on world culture. Could new footage of the robbers casing the joint help retrieve the masterpieces?
Continue Reading...Paul’s ART STUFF on a train # 90: ‘The Colour in Rembrandt’
Rembrandt: Juno, 1662-5 Rembrandt is known, of course, for his crepuscular tone and his ability to draw symbolic and emotional meaning from shadows and darkness relieved by telling illumination. Presenting the 40 paintings, 30 prints and 20 drawings of ‘The Late Works’ in the National Gallery’s windowless Sainsbury basement rooms (to 18 Jan) emphasises the […]
Continue Reading...Tabish’s Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London over Christmas
This weeks top 5 features architectural photography, Rembrandt, Constable, witches and crashing waves.
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