The 90s at Tate Britain: Edward Enninful Restages the Decade That Rewired British Culture
Tate Britain’s new exhibition, guest-curated by Edward Enninful, brings nearly 70 artists, photographers and designers into one room-by-room argument: that in 1990s Britain, art and fashion became a single cultural force.
Sculpting Colour at the Louvre: Spain’s Painted Saints Step Out of Zurbarán’s Shadow
Twenty-three polychrome wood sculptures from Valladolid’s national museum, among them a complete life-size processional paso by Gregorio Fernández, open in the Hall Napoléon beside the Zurbarán retrospective. The pairing is the point.
Mary Cassatt at Orsay: A Centenary Tribute France Owed Her
The Musée d’Orsay opens the first major exhibition the French national museums have devoted to Mary Cassatt, a century after her death — and reads her career through the one word she claimed for herself: independent.
Zurbarán at the Louvre: The Painter of Silence Takes the Hall Napoléon
From 7 October the Louvre, with the National Gallery and the Art Institute of Chicago, stages a retrospective of Francisco de Zurbarán — and ends it, tellingly, with Manet, Picasso and Gris.
André Teymouri on Painting Men Who Don’t Exist
André Teymouri paints from a small set of fragments — a jawline glimpsed on the subway, a beard seen on the street, a stranger’s photo on Instagram — and lets them settle into a face that belongs to no one in particular. The men in his paintings are bearded, broad-shouldered, often shirtless, and almost always […]