Tag: JMW Turner

  • Turner in January

    From storms thrashing lighthouses to mountaintops enveloped by cloud, from golden piazzas to the Italian Riviera, Turner’s delicate watercolours are stirring visions of the natural world

  • Thomas Cole: Eden to Empire

    A fresh look at the paintings of British émigré Thomas Cole reveals some eerily relevant messages for our current times

  • Elger Esser: ‘Beauty is not important; it’s a logical result in my opinion’

    After his recent solo exhibition at Parasol Unit in London, Elger Esser talks about the relationship between Lebanon and Syria, having more in common with JMW Turner than Caspar David Friedrich, and how we are programmed to view landscapes as…

  • Constable and Brighton

    A pivotal period of John Constable’s life was spent in Brighton, where he would repeat three favourite walks, making sequential sketches, often intended as visual notes for larger paintings, but many quite exquisite as works in their own right

  • Risk

    From the work of Bas Jan Ader, who disappeared while crossing the Atlantic in a tiny boat, to the political statements of Ai Weiwei, to Lucy Wood’s improbably dangerous glass trampoline, this exhibition explores risk in art

  • 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…

  • Fighting History

    Fighting History, an exhibition examining 250 years of history painting, has received a torrent of abuse from the British press. It has been accused of being “feeble,” “terribly presented” and “frustrating.” Surely, it can’t be that bad?

  • Tania Kovats: Oceans

    The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh 15 March – 25 May 2014

  • Odilon Redon

    Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Basel, Switzerland 2 February – 18 May 2014

  • Ruin Lust

    Tate Britain, London 4 March – 18 May 2014