Tag: Diego Velázquez
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Enough Is Definitely Enough – book review
As this captivating book shows, when Andrew Bracey asked 62 contemporary artists for their interpretation of Diego Velázquez’s Las Meninas, there are still plenty of fresh ideas about this 365-year-old work
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Frick Madison provides temporary home for the Frick Collection
The superstars have been realigned as the old Whitney Breuer hosts the Frick Collection with surprising success
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A Backward Glance: Giorgio Morandi and the Old Masters
The early 20th-century painter known for his devotion to still lifes is held up next to the artists who shaped his vision
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Murillo: The Self-Portraits
A small number of Murillo’s rare portraits are brought together at the National Gallery to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the artist’s birth. But what can the only two self-portraits he painted tell us of the man himself?
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Gianfranco Baruchello: Incidents of Lesser Account
Raven Row reopened with a major survey of Gianfranco Baruchello, a rambunctious and polymathic master of contemporary Italian art
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The EY Exhibition: Wifredo Lam
He fought in the Spanish civil war, was exiled from France by the Nazis and returned to his native Cuba to find it utterly changed. His genius was to turn his experiences into a unique portrait of his time and…
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Manolo Valdés: ‘I only like apples if they look like Cezanne’s apples!’
Like a magpie, taking fragments from works of art that he loves and reinterpreting them in new paintings on burlap or as sculptures, Valdés is always on the look out for inspiration. He explains how his entire world is seen…
