Art Deco centenary in Paris

A major exhibition in Paris marks the centenary of the ‘Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes’ in Paris in 1925

Caravaggio’s Cupid

The loan to the Wallace Collection of Caravaggio’s Victorious Cupid from the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin offers an extraordinary opportunity to study one of the artist’s greatest masterpieces

‘Anna Ancher: Painting Light’

Dulwich Picture Gallery is currently showing the first UK exhibition devoted to Anna Archer (1859–1935), one of the most original and significant Danish painters

Picasso: from the studio

This exhibition takes as its inspiration Picasso’s remark, ‘The way an artist arranges the objects around him is as revealing as his creations’

Neo-Impressionists at the National Gallery, London

‘Radical Harmony: Helene Kröller-Müller’s Neo-Impressionists’ National Gallery, London 13 September–8 February 2026   Julien Domercq, ed, Radical Harmony: Helene Kröller-Müller’s Neo-Impressionists, National Gallery Global, 2025, pp208 ISBN 9781857097375       Roderick Conway Morris     ‘They see poetry in what I have done. No. I apply my methods, and that is all there is […]

Watteau and ‘cutting and pasting’ in the 18th century

A new book and a Watteau exhibition prove complementary in revealing an artistic world in the 18th century in which ‘cutting and pasting’ – using and re-using visual sources – was habitual

Hiroshige at the British Museum

In the world of popular prints 19th-century Japan was infinitely more colourful than the West, where almost all printed matter was monochrome.

Castle Howard Preserv’d

The precocious British mania for foreign recreational and educational travel made the wealthier natives of these islands the Grand Tourists par excellence. Castle Howard, in North Yorkshire, which still stands, as Horace Walpole described it, amid ‘the grandest scenes of rural magnificence’, became over several generations one of the most outstanding products of this enthusiasm for Continental and especially Italian travel.

Edvard Munch portraits

‘A painter like Munch is rooted in the psychological with all his fibres,’ wrote the German critic Franz Servaes in the 1890s. ‘He cannot even depict a landscape without making its soul his own. For the same reasons, he is also a highly sensitive portrait painter.’

Carpaccio review

‘Vittore Carpaccio: Drawings and Paintings’
National Gallery of Art, Washington,
20 November 2022–12 February 2023
Doge’s Palace, Venice,
18 March–18 June 2023
Roderick Conway Morris