Tag: Edgar Degas

  • Paris 1874: Inventing Impressionism

    This glorious show recreates much of the first impressionist exhibition in 1874 alongside works from the traditional Salon that same year. And it does so both through the original artworks and via a state-of-the-art virtual walk through the impressionists’ world…

  • Rethinking pink

    A corporate and trademarked invention, Barbie Pink is still marketed as the colour of perpetual happiness. Tracing the multiple iterations of pink through art history, however, reveals more complex meanings

  • Huysmans, Art Critic: From Degas to Grünewald, in the Eye of Francesco Vezzoli

    A diverting exhibition at Musée d’Orsay explores the influential art criticism of the quintessential decadent writer, helped – and hindered – by the contemporary Italian artist Vezzoli

  • Painters’ Paintings: from Freud to Van Dyck

    The National Gallery sheds light on the personalities of some of the biggest names in painting, not through their work, but through the art that they collected

  • 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…

  • Transfigurations: Modern Masters from the Wexner Family Collection

    This exhibition, which revolves around Pablo Picasso, Jean Dubuffet and Alberto Giacometti, offers works of an intimacy, scale and aesthetic that is utterly personal while also of museum calibre. The Picassos alone are worth the trip

  • Making Colour

    Colour is one of the joys of life: the deep blue of a summer sky, the clouded yellow of a butterfly’s wing. Vital to our perception of art, tones lift hearts and minds in the ultramarine mantle of a Renaissance…

  • Eadweard Muybridge: Shaping and Shifting Our Point of View

    Linbury Galleries, Tate Britain, London 8 September 2010–16 January 2011

  • Self-Portrait: Renaissance to Contemporary

    National Portrait Gallery, London 20 October 2005 – 29 January 2006