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Michael Landy’s ‘Semi-detached’ is an arresting sight at Tate Britain. A perfect – full size – reproduction of his parents’ house in Essex. The house is split in two, separated by a columnated space, with two large screen facing one…

The Barnard Castle, Co Durham, Bowes Museum is hosting (until 30 August 2004) ‘Boudin, Monet and the Sea Painters of Normandy’. The exhibition allows the rare opportunity to compare Boudin, Courbet, and Monet closely with lesser known artists such as…

The disappearance of the ‘old’ Museum of Modern Art has left old modernists in old New York gasping. But, to quote Michael Winner (in those irritating car insurance ads) – ‘calm down’. The remodelling is more; it is totally new…

Not the person, but the portrait of Jackson by Maggi Hambling (perhaps an opportunistic choice of subject by the artist) was rejected by the Royal Academy’s ‘Summer Exhibition’, following distaste expressed by Anthony Green – who holds no little sway…

The Chelsea flower show once again grabbed all the headlines in the colour sections at the end of May. Tate Britain attempt to hijack the thematic approach, with their exhibition ‘Art and the Garden’, running to 30 August 2004. What…

The enigma of de Kooning’s late works, when he suffered from Alzheimer’s disease, persists; they are notorious if only for the cloud that hangs over them. The centennial exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery in New York, closing on 19 June…

Isabel Rawsthorne, the subject of famous portraits by Francis Bacon, died in 1992. She had met Bacon in her late forties, having earlier been painted by Picasso while living with André Derain in Paris. Bacon was fascinated by her, and…