Tag: Francisco Goya

Markus Lüpertz – Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

A beguiling exhibition at Michael Werner Gallery places two distinctive artists into a balletic dialogue illuminating painting’s shifting relationship with the pilasters of classical art, figure and landscape
George Gittoes – interview: ‘The spirit of art cannot be suppressed by the barbarity of war’

The Australian artist has been visiting war zones for 50 years and he and his wife travelled to Kyiv the week after Russia’s invasion. He explains his need to go there to work with Ukrainian artists, paint murals on destroyed…
Jake and Dinos Chapman: The Disasters of Everyday Life

Among the casts of suicide vests, it is the Chapman brothers’ reworked etchings of Goya that hold the interest, drawing us in to view more closely the horrors of war
Visual Wit and Social Critique. Satire from Goya to Grosz

With three centuries’ worth of satire, this exhibition offers an overview of things that have changed and, perhaps more engagingly, things that have not, through an artist’s eye view of society
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…
Danie Mellor: Exotic Lies, Sacred Ties

University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia 18 January – 27 April 2014
William Kentridge: Fortuna

William Kentridge: Fortuna, edited by Lilian Tone with commentary by William Kentridge. Published by Thames and Hudson, 2013
Kentridge: Where Are We and How Did We Get Here?

William Kentridge: The Refusal of Time The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 22 October 2013 – 11 May 2014