Art | Culture | Exhibitions
Late Raphael Museo del Prado, Madrid, June 12th to September 16th; Musée du Louvre, Paris, October 8th to January 2013. Raphael’s final years were so good that the Prado and the Louvre have dedicated a whole exhibition to them. He died at 37, still in his prime (Vasari reports that he overexerted himself with his mistress, […]
Americans in Florence: Sargent and the American Impressionists Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, March 3rd to July 15th. As with all long-term relationships, Florence and the Americans have history. They have been through the good times and the bad, the break-ups and the make-ups. Now they are back holding hands and exchanging flirty glances with an exhibition […]
David Hockney: A Bigger Picture Royal Academy of Arts, London, January 21st to April 9th. The sumptuous, well-groomed galleries of the Royal Academy are about to get grassy. A whiff of Bridlington is coming to Burlington House, with those plush crimson walls soon to be covered in a thick layer of foliage. David Hockney […]
Diego Rivera: Murals for the Museum of Modern Art MoMA, New York, November 13th to May 14th. Diego Rivera (1886-1957) was several people in one. A political partisan and rebellious spirit, he was also a painter, illustrator, architect, draughtsman, costume designer and sculptor. His private life was a whirlwind: Frida Kahlo was wife No 3, […]
Becoming the Story KK Outlet, London, until November 26th. This past February, while on patrol in Afghanistan with the 75th Cavalry of the American army, Giles Duley (pictured), a British photographer, stepped on a bomb and instantly lost three of his limbs. After nearly 20 operations and nine months of intensive rehabilitation, Duley is getting […]
Manet, the Man who Invented Modern Art Musée d’Orsay, Paris, April 5th to July 3rd. In the Oscars of the art world, Manet would prove an ideal nominee for Artist in a Leading Role. Like many Hollywood hotshots, he led a theatrical private life fuelled by outlandish affairs. His colleagues admired him but they were […]
Modern British Sculpture Royal Academy, London, January 22nd to April 7th. In a world full of questions, the Royal Academy is about to pose three more. What is modern? What is British? And what is sculpture? The answer is a blockbuster exhibition—the first in 30 years to examine the peaks (and troughs) of 20th-century British sculpture, […]