Tag: Max Beckmann

  • 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…

  • London 1938: Defending ‘Degenerate’ Art

    In 1938, a year after the notorious Nazi exhibition of “degenerate art” in Munich, a counter exhibition in London showed works by 65 of the defamed artists. Eighty years on, this retrospective looks back at that exhibition, its organisers, the…

  • Joyce Cairns: interview

    A visit to France in 1984, where she observed the ceremonies to mark the liberation of the country in 1944, prompted Cairns to make paintings that would enable her to explore her father’s war experience. There followed works in 1986…

  • Interview with John Mellencamp

    Lilly Wei: You’ve had two museum shows of your paintings recently, the first at the Tennessee State Museum in Nashville last year and now this one at the Butler. Would you talk a little about your painting? Although less widely…

  • Max Beckmann

    Centre Pompidou, Paris. 11 September 2002-6 January 2003. Tate Modern, London. 13 February-5 May 2003. MoMA QNS, New York. 26 June-29 September 2003.