Titian’s art drinks in the air and light of his native city and breathes it out across the worldTitian is an artist who travels well. The very name we know him by in the English-speaking world, derived from Tiziano, is testament to his capacity to take…
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Is the art of bullfighting dead?
From Goya to Picasso, artists have painted pictures that depend on the gore and passion of the bullfight for their greatness – so will the bloodsport’s demise mean the end of tragic art?Spanish bulls are breathing more easily after Catalonia became t…
Leonardo’s nightmare of war still haunts France | Jonathan Jones
Traces of Leonardo’s lost painting The Battle of Anghiari survive in a chateau in Burgundy – as a reader of this blog alerted meI’d like to thank one of our regular participants on this blog, Lee Woods, for alerting me to a powerful example of French…
Waiting for Clegg and co: a funding tragedy in two acts | Jonathan Jones
Crippling arts cuts mean coalition Britain is set to become a cultural wasteland, just as it was under the last Tory governmentThe mood of Britain under the last Conservative government was aggressively philistine. Modern art was mocked, and heritage a…
The Royal Academy must get its summer exhibition act together | Jonathan Jones
Relegating the meagre showpiece from the main floor would give great artists like John Singer Sargent a broader canvasI have a modest proposal to put to the Royal Academy. Every summer, there is a strange imbalance in its galleries. The vast salons on …
Leonardo Da Vinci’s Virgin of the Rocks – more to Mary than meets the eye? | Jonathan Jones
Leonardo da Vinci was once accused of being a heretic. And does The Virgin of the Rocks hint that Jesus’s conception was less than immaculate?I wonder if this is the place and the time to air my nuttiest speculation about Leonardo da Vinci. In my piece…
Happisburgh tools: masterpieces with a cutting edge | Jonathan Jones
Only the flint-hearted would deny that the beautiful haul of stone tools found in East Anglia this week should be regarded as artStone tools can do more than cut up mammoth meat. They can change the map of prehistory. It was announced this week that a …
Why last week’s Turner auction made me queasy | Jonathan Jones
The sale of Turner’s Modern Rome: Campo Vaccino for £29.7m is no triumph. It’s an Antiques Roadshow attitude to art”Turner oil breaks artist record,” said the original headline on the BBC Entertainment News page. Images of Turner Prize-winning oil sli…
Lee Siegel may be right – the American novel is no longer great | Jonathan Jones
Over the past half-century, US writers surpassed their British counterparts in language and imagination. But not any moreYou know it’s July when a critic’s declaration of the novel’s demise makes it as a news story. Serious fiction is dead, according t…
Frida Kahlo’s birthday presence: a Google doodle tribute
The rare power and intensity of Frida Kahlo’s work makes Google’s decision to honour her on its homepage richly deservedToday is the birthday of Frida Kahlo, born in Mexico on 6 July 1907, and Google USA has decorated its homepage in honour of this soc…
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