Contributed by Laurie Fendrich / Some 250 years after the birth of the English Romantic painter J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851), the Yale Center for British Art has re-opened its renovated Brutalist building with a perfectly scaled, carefully curated exhibition of 77 Turner prints, watercolors, and oil paintings from its collection of his works, the largest outside Britain.
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Vilhelm Hammersh�i in London
The Royal Academy of Art is presenting a retrospective of Danish painter Vilhelm Hammersh�i(1864-1916), who was known for depicting austere interiors in a dour range […]
From Russia in London
“From Russia: French and Russian Master Paintings 1870-1925 from Moscow and St. Petersburg,” Royal Academy of Arts, London. Through April 18. See images of the […]
David Hockney update
Time’s critic/blogger Richard Lacayo chats with David Hockney about his living situation, designing theater sets, landscape painting, the big British press and more.“Lacayo: When I […]
Talking with Baselitz
“Georg Baselitz,” Royal Academy of Arts, London. Through Dec. 9. The exhibition includes works produced over the five decades of Baselitz’s career, from his earliest […]