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This Hockney show is disorientingly enjoyable

When so much contemporary art is riven with obscurity and angst, it is disorienting, at first, to encounter something as straightforwardly enjoyable...

03.04.2026 6

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Hermione Eyre

How sure are we that all the Michaelina Wautiers at the RA are by her?

Roll up, there’s a new old master in town. Or a new old mistress, if you prefer. Michaelina Wautier (1614-89) is revealed here as a painter who...

02.04.2026 10

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Hermione Eyre

This Hockney show is disorientatingly enjoyable

When so much contemporary art is riven with obscurity and angst, it is disorientating, at first, to encounter something as straightforwardly enjoyable...

26.03.2026 10

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Hermione Eyre

Marvelous but repetitious: Gwen John – Strange Beauties reviewed

A pilgrimage to Cardiff Central, sorry, Caerdydd Canolog (according to the signage in the station, which also had my return train’s destination...

11.03.2026 10

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Marvellous but repetitious: Gwen John – Strange Beauties reviewed

A pilgrimage to Cardiff Central, sorry, Caerdydd Canolog (according to the signage in the station, which also had my return train’s destination...

26.02.2026 10

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Hermione Eyre

How fantastic to see Hogarth’s largest paintings in their original glory

29.01.2026 10

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This exhibition made my companion gasp

13.11.2025 20

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Magnificent: V&A’s Marie Antoinette Style reviewed

25.09.2025 10

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Exhibitions / Sondheim understood Seurat better than the National Gallery

23.09.2025 10

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Sondheim understood Seurat better than the National Gallery

18.09.2025 10

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Hermione Eyre

Wittily wild visions: Abstract Erotic, at the Courtauld, reviewed

07.08.2025 20

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Exhibitions / Grayson Perry has pulled off another coup at the Wallace Collection

12.07.2025 20

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Grayson Perry has pulled off another coup at the Wallace Collection

10.07.2025 10

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Hermione Eyre

Why you didn’t want to get on the wrong side of Cecil Beaton

05.06.2025 10

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Fascinating royal clutter: The Edwardians, at The King’s Gallery, reviewed

29.05.2025 10

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Exhibitions / Poise and gentleness: Hiroshige, at the British Museum, reviewed

13.05.2025 20

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Poise and gentleness: Hiroshige, at the British Museum, reviewed

08.05.2025 10

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Exhibitions / Wonderfully intimate: The Drawings of Victor Hugo, at the RA, reviewed

08.04.2025 20

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Exhibitions / Wonderfully intimate: The Drawings of Victor Hugo, at the RA, reviewed

08.04.2025 10

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Hermione Eyre

Exhibitions / Wonderfully intimate: The Drawings of Victor Hugo, at the RA, reviewed

08.04.2025 10

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Exhibitions / An exhilarating, uneven survey of an outstandingly eccentric British surrealist

05.03.2025 20

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An exhilarating, uneven survey of an outstandingly eccentric British surrealist

27.02.2025 30

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Exhibitions / The rediscovery of the art of Simone de Beauvoir’s sister

04.02.2025 30

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The rediscovery of the art of Simone de Beauvoir’s sister

30.01.2025 20

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Hermione Eyre