Tag: Oscar Wilde

  • Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime

    Taking its title from an Oscar Wilde short story, this group show whose setting echoes the salons and society gatherings of the playwright’s time, playfully explores the complexities of persona and performance

  • Aubrey Beardsley

    In the largest exhibition of Beardsley’s drawings for 50 years, we see evidence of his exquisite practice and a dedication to drawing in a painfully short life and career

  • Queer British Art 1861-1967

    To mark the 50th anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of sex between men, Tate Britain’s contribution to the plethora of queer exhibitions across the UK is a well-curated, well-balanced, aesthetically compelling tribute to sexualities and genders across the spectrum

  • Inside: Artists and Writers in Reading Prison

    Since it was founded in 1985, cultural organisation Artangel has made a name for itself staging exhibitions in headline-grabbing locations. Its latest show brings a cast of literary and art-world heavyweights to the cells, corridors and chapel of HM Prison…

  • Maggi Hambling: ‘Some paintings you’ve just got to cut up. There’s enough bad art in the world’

    Maggi Hambling talks about the sea, life, death and love in her work, how, despite being nearly 70, she’s still learning about painting, and why sometimes a painting has to be killed off