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Exhibition Review / 26 June 2026
26 June 2026

To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE

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Exhibition Review / 26 June 2026
26 June 2026

If you can see past the relentless commodification you will be rewarded by enormously powerful work, suggests JENNY MITCHELL

(L to R) Vincent van Gogh, Bedroom in Arles, 1889; Hew Locke
Culture / 30 December 2024
30 December 2024
From van Gogh to Sonia Boyce, from Hew Locke to Patrick Carpenter and... Pablo Picasso
Robert Olley, Off the Way, 2000, oil on canvas; Gillian Wale
Exhibition / 5 July 2023
5 July 2023
ROBERT McMANNERS and GILLIAN WALES tell the story of how they came to create the first dedicated Mining Art Museum in Britain
Chaim Soutine: Les Platanes a Ceret, c.1920; Le valet de cha
Exhibition / 17 April 2023
17 April 2023
JOE GILL relishes the emotional force of an exhibition of two interconnected painters who trust instinct over technique
Women + Health Day poster, Reclaim the Night march, Aberdeen
Exhibition / 29 March 2023
29 March 2023
CHRIS ALDRED explains the revolutionary ideas celebrated in an exhibition of women’s protest art in Aberdeen, and why they remain relevant 
(L to R) Paula Modersohn-Becker, Mother with Child on her Ar
Exhibition / 13 January 2023
13 January 2023
These women have been overshadowed, marginalised or ignored by the male-dominated art world for far too long, writes CHRISTINE LINDEY
(L to R) Madame Moitessier, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1
Exhibition / 13 September 2022
13 September 2022
CHRISTINE LINDEY recommends a National Gallery’s inventive pairing of two canvasses, one by an inspired traditionalist and the other by a restless innovator
(L to R) Finnan Smokers, 1992; Untitled (Bas Rock II)
Exhibition / 11 August 2022
11 August 2022
CHRISTINE LINDEY recommends an exhibition of remarkable paintings by an artist whose working-class consciousness never left him
(L to R) Tam Joseph, The Spirit of the Carnival 1982; Paul D
Exhibition Review / 3 February 2022
3 February 2022
JENNY MITCHELL urges everyone who can to visit an exhibition that tells the complex story of the interplay and interdependence between the Caribbean diaspora and Britain over the last 70 years
(L to R) Somaya Critchlow, Figure Holding a Little Teacup, 2
Exhibition Review / 2 November 2021
2 November 2021
LYNNE WALSH leaves the gallery saturated to the point of nausea by the overabundance of paintings on display
Archipel fluvial de Mariua
Photography / 15 October 2021
15 October 2021
On the eve of Cop26 this is a pertinent reminder of the perils our rapacious species has forced on the entire globe