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Miró in London: Joan Miró IV
The story of Omega Workshops
Discover the fascinating story of the Omega Workshops, whose Bloomsbury artists brought abstract shapes and bold colours from modern art …
Women, War and Social Change
Walking in unquiet landscapes
Other traditions run through depictions of the British landscape, below and beyond romantic idealisations. Here, Robert Macfarlane traces a history …
Art in an Emergency
In these uncertain times, images of darkness and hope from across the ages chime with our own ‘mood of magnified …
A Rye view: Edward Burra
He had six paintings in London’s International Surrealist Exhibition in 1936, but was never formally a surrealist. His work has …
Earthly delights: The art of the garden
The Art of the Garden: Jemima Montagu explores the garden symbol all the way back to Eden, through the ‘close-locked’ …
Hidden Treasures
Olivia Fraser, great niece of artist Eileen Agar (1899–1991) remembers the ‘fragile bird of paradise’ who rejoiced in the surreal …
The Head & the Load: Heavy History
The world premiere of The Head and the Load, created by William Kentridge along with composer Philip Miller, musical …
Wild Geese Over the Mountains: Melodrama and the Sublime in the English Imaginary 1933–9: The Sublime Object
The paper traces the frequency with which familiar tropes of the sublime are used in the writing and painting of …
Objects That Speak for Themselves
Since the birth of humans as sentient beings, we have believed in the animistic nature of things – of plants, …
Before the flood, or after the war?: Winifred Knights at Tate Britain
For his recent verse drama Pink Mist, Owen Sheers interviewed dozens of wounded soldiers who had returned from conflict, …
Exhibition and Reception
Hello from ‘Sleepy’: Document: Mondrian in London
The Dutch painter Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) is regarded as one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. His …
A terrible beauty: Roger Fenton
In 1855 Roger Fenton took a photograph that became an iconic image of the Crimean War. The story of its …
Colour – The Unruly Child
The British have long been seduced by the melancholic certainty of grey weather, and it embedded itself in how we …
After The Deluge
Dance, Theatre and Performance
Aftermath: Confronting Oblivion
How British, German, Belgian and French artists expressed the psychological fallout of the First World War
Lifestyle and Legacy of the Bloomsbury Group
Privileged bohemians who dabbled in the arts – or creatives who made an important contribution to the development of modern …