‘A ball of mighty, miraculous life’ – Picturing Childhood review
From Lucian Freud’s unsentimental depiction of infant Bella to Raphael’s intimate observations and an 18th-century pram designed to be pulled by a goat, this exhibition is full of fun and insight
September 2023
Oligarch files
Roman Abramovich amassed one of the world’s most impressive private stores of modern art
Jonathan Jones
The Guardian’s art critic examines the collection amassed by the oligarch and his ex-wife Dasha Zhukova, which includes Freuds, Picassos and Russian modernism
August 2023
The Guinness heir who became the ‘saviour’ of traditional Irish songs
Arts patron Garech Browne is the subject of a new book that hails him as a cultural rescuer who helped preserve Ireland’s folk tunes and poems
May 2023
Tate Britain rehang review – this is now the museum where art goes to sleep
Tate Britain, London Once the provocative home of artistic sensation, the gallery is now vacuous, worthy and fundamentally dull. It even seems to disapprove of the very British art it used to promote
April 2023
Fame finally calls for British painter John Craxton, friend of Lucian Freud and lover of all things Greek
Dogged by controversy – our relationship with canines through the ages
March 2023
Rather fetching: classic portraits of dogs – in pictures
A new exhibition showcases dog portraiture from Lucian Freud to Edwin Landseer
February 2023
Lucian Freud portrait of daughter Isobel expected to fetch up to £20m at auction
Ib Reading, not seen in public for more than 20 years, was result of more than 70 sittings
December 2022
The anti-hibernation culture guide: something to enjoy for every day in January
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Are you bored yet? Five art shows to be dazzled by over the Christmas season
November 2022
‘A perverse part of me likes to delve into what’s off-limits’: Somaya Critchlow on her taboo-breaking art
Microsoft co-founder’s collection poised to raise $1bn in ‘largest art auction in history’
October 2022
Lucian Freud: New Perspectives; Marina Abramović: Gates and Portals – review
Lucian Freud’s dispassionate work speaks for itself in a liberating show without wall texts, while Marina Abramović pushes our critic to the brink
September 2022
Love Lucian by David Dawson and Martin Gayford review
Lucian Freud’s letters reveal the artist in all his rambunctious, irreverent and amusing glory
Lucian Freud’s etching of Wolseley restaurant creator to be sold
Artist dined at Mayfair restaurant almost every night in later years, and would sometimes share a table with co-founder Jeremy King
Lucian Freud review – the Queen, Leigh Bowery and the artist’s ex-wives stand brutally revealed
From the monarch to the naked performance artist who was living with Aids, Freud paints life lived in the face of death, with an unsentimental eye for human tendernesss
July 2022
Notebook
I can only stand in baffled awe as my husband’s novel is brought to life on film
Rachel Cooke
Just as he couldn’t explain to me what inspired his characters, I can’t divine what he thinks of this adaptation
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Turner’s turn-ons and Freud’s family affair – the week in art
The great landscape artist’s lesser known erotic art goes on show in London while Lucian Freud is at Sigmund’s house and Jay Jopling’s White Cube crew are off to the countryside
‘Sigmund would have loved this’ – Lucian Freud: The Painter and his Family review
The painter’s sex life drove his art. Does this show think that’s too vulgar to go into? The result is richly ironic: a case of repression in the building that houses Sigmund’s consulting couch
June 2022
Francis Bacon portrait of Lucian Freud expected to sell for over £35m at auction
Painting, based on black and white photograph, last exhibited in 1965 as part of a triptych
