Tag: JMW Turner

  • Shadowscapes: Heaney, JMW Turner and Quantum

    Spilling over floors, walls and balconies, as well as in framed works on walls, artist Libby Heaney’s intervention at Orleans House conjures up the formlessness of quantum physics within the formal constraints of a historical building

  • Radical Landscapes

    A green and pleasant land or a place of aristocratic privilege for some and backbreaking labour and protest for others? An intriguing exhibition at William Morris’ Walthamstow residence explores how landscape art and radical politics have intersected

  • Pam Evelyn – interview: ‘Now I’m realising that these existential collapses with the painting are actually necessary’

    In her studio in Dalston, east London, Pam Evelyn talks about the push and pull of making one of her large-scale abstract paintings and learning to live with its contradictions and tensions

  • Fruits of the Spirit: Art from the Heart

    A virtual exhibition that leaves one visitor feeling more like a student on completing an essay than a gallery-goer having had a visceral encounter with 18 fabulous works of art

  • Sussex Landscape: Chalk, Wood and Water

    With an outstanding collection of work from JMW Turner to Eric Ravilious to Wolfgang Tillmans, this generous and compelling exhibition celebrates the landscape of Sussex and the artists who have been drawn to it

  • The World According to Colour: A Cultural History – book review

    Oddly, a squashed fly triggered art historian James Fox’s fascination with colour and, in this ambitious study, he takes us on an epic journey showing the significance of various colours across the ages

  • Joan Eardley: Centenary

    To mark the centenary of her birth, the Scottish Gallery is hosting a small but impressive exhibition of Joan Eardley, with material – new and old – on her life and practice, in Glasgow and on the coast in Catterline

  • 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

  • Sea Star: Sean Scully at the National Gallery

    In this exhibition of more than 30 of Scully’s paintings, prints and pastels, JMW Turner’s The Evening Star provides the jumping-off point for the artist’s works

  • John Ruskin: The Power of Seeing

    Marking the bicentenary of Ruskin’s birth, this exhibition, the first of many across the UK this year, celebrates the artist-critic-collector’s intentional legacy, the Guild of St George, and his lessons in using looking and drawing as conduits to understanding