Tag: Courtauld Gallery

  • Monet and London: Views of the Thames

    Industrial pollution is imbued with celestial light in Monet’s extraordinarily atmospheric paintings of the Thames. This is an exhibition not to be missed

  • Art and Artifice: Fakes from the Collection

    If there is one thing great art institutions usually try to avoid, it is fakes. The Courtauld has turned that on its head, with a show that tells the intriguing and instructive stories of the fakes in its own collection

  • Helen Saunders: Modernist Rebel

    One of only two female members of the vorticists’ group, her work was later sidelined. This show goes some way to redressing those years of obscurity, with her singular vision and artistry shining through

  • Edvard Munch: Masterpieces from Bergen

    This feels like a patchy presentation and, despite the promise of ‘masterpieces’, the selection veers more towards Munch’s experimental works

  • The Courtauld Institute refurbishment – review: ‘A bit of an epiphany’

    After a three-year, £57m restoration and refurbishment by the Stirling-Prize winning architects Witherford Watson Mann, the Courtauld Institute in London is a beautiful showcase for one of Europe’s finest art collections

  • Botticelli and Treasures from the Hamilton Collection

    Botticelli’s delicate illustrations of Dante’s The Divine Comedy steal the show in this exhibition of prints and manuscripts from the Hamilton Collection. Ernst Vegelin van Claerbergen, head of the Courtauld, talks to us about them

  • Unfinished … Works from the Courtauld Gallery

    Most artists, at some point, are asked, ‘How do you know when a work is finished?’ It’s a surprisingly difficult question to answer for artists and historians alike, but one that is being explored in the Courtauld Gallery’s annual Summer…

  • Black Mould

    Michaël Borremans’ current exhibition at David Zwirner Gallery in London conjures a nightmarish world that is both sinister and strangely captivating. But there is more to this beautifully presented exhibition than the paintings themselves

  • Goya: The Witches and Old Women Album

    Nightmarish visions and demonic passions fill the pages of Goya’s late drawings. But as this exhibition at the Courtauld illustrates, there is also sadness and humour among the withered limbs and toothless old women that haunt these fascinating albums

  • Egon Schiele: The Radical Nude

    Egon Schiele’s controversial drawings, which peel back Vienna’s bourgeois façade to reveal a world of sex and death, go on display at the Courtauld Gallery for the UK’s first ever show dedicated to the Austrian artist’s radical work