Tag: William Hogarth

  • Reimag(in)ing the Victorians in Contemporary Art

    This rigorously researched and curated, yet aesthetically delightful, exhibition forces the visitor to reckon with Oscar Wilde’s statement that the one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it

  • Sin

    A compact, but rich exhibition at the National Gallery finds moral transgression at the core of western art history

  • Harriet Middleton-Baker: ‘I enjoy the potential for opera to be seriously extreme’

    The artist talks about unpicking the story of William Hogarth’s A Harlot’s Progress and using her latest opera to explore architectural form, power distribution and the ambivalence of feminism in a corporate climate

  • Comix Creatrix: 100 women making comics

    This is a groundbreaking exhibition of female comics artists, from Hogarth’s contemporary Mary Darly to the modern day. Below, Sarah Lightman, Nicola Streeten and Rachael House talk to us about their work

  • William Kentridge: Fortuna

    William Kentridge: Fortuna, edited by Lilian Tone with commentary by William Kentridge. Published by Thames and Hudson, 2013

  • Grayson Perry. The Vanity of Small Differences

    Grayson Perry’s current exhibition at Victoria Miro features his new series of six tapestries, The Vanity of Small Differences, which explores notions of taste through the lens of social class

  • William Hogarth

    Musée du Louvre, Paris 20 October 2006-8 January 2007 The great 18th-century caricaturist, William Hogarth, who signed himself ‘Britophil’, caught the mood with flattering – if double-edged – national stereotypes. People loved his beer-swilling, roast-beef-guzzling, four-square Englishmen, the ‘dread and…

  • Unmasking the Heroes of American Comic Art

    Masters of American Comics The Newark Museum, New York a 15 September 2006-28 January 2007

  • Self-Portrait: Renaissance to Contemporary

    National Portrait Gallery, London 20 October 2005 – 29 January 2006