A new exhibition at Tate Britain includes canvases titled after symphonies and nocturnes, but the inspiration flows in both directions. Plus, how Felicity Lott led me to an epiphany
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‘America’s Mona Lisa’: how chance, genius and cheap paint made the masterpiece Whistler’s Mother ⊕⊕
When his 15-year-old model did a runner, Whistler’s mother stepped in. As the triumphant result arrives in Britain, the work’s restorer writes about its creator’s brilliance – while wishing he’d used…
27 days ago
Most famous image of JMW Turner not a self-portrait, says expert ⊕
Painting that inspired depiction on £20 note more likely the work of John Opie, says Romantic artist’s biographer
In 2020, Tate Britain hosted the launch of a new £20 banknote bearing representations …
28 days ago
Zineb Sedira review: A chic ode to revolutionary cinema, brainy boozers – and exceptional berets ⊕⊕
Tate Britain, London
The Franco-Algerian artist’s exploration of radical film-making in the 1960s and 70s is so seductive it makes you wish the crowd was livelier and the wine was flowing
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Hurvin Anderson review – this haunted, hazy, beautiful show is like stumbling through someone’s memories ⊕
Tate Britain, London
Anderson creates figurative paintings with a dreamlike intangibility, exploring his black British and Jamaican heritage with a startlingly fragile and unresolved intensity
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6 months ago
Nnena Kalu becomes first artist with a learning disability to win Turner prize ⊕⊕
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Chair of 2025 judging panel says win ‘begins to erase that border between the neurotypical and neurodiverse artist’
Nnena Kalu’s embodied, sensuous art makes her a worthy Turner prize winner
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The Guardian view on Turner and Constable: radical in different ways | Editorial ⊕
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Capturing the changing landscapes of the 18th century, the rivals transformed British art. The climate emergency gives new urgency to their work
JMW Turner appears on £20 notes and gives his name to B…
Turner v Constable: Tate Britain exhibition invokes long history of artistic rivalries ⊖
From Michelangelo and Leonardo to Picasso and Matisse, bitter feuds have defined art. But are contemporary artists more collaborative than their renaissance predecessors?
“He has been here and fired a…
8 months ago
‘Out on a damn limb’: the daredevil photography of Lee Miller – in pictures ⊖
A fearless war photographer, a peerless surrealist, a chronicler of Egypt and Syria … a new exhibition at Tate Britain explores how Lee Miller became one of the most urgent voices of 20th-century art
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Jazz, Paris and war’s brutality: the radical watercolours of Edward Burra, British art’s great unknown ○
He called art ‘fart’ and hated talking about his work, but a rare retrospective offers the chance to celebrate the radical visions of the 20th-century British painter
On any objective reading, Edward …