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Martin Gayford

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Derek Jacobi on playing Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud almost had a second career in the cinema. He acted as an extra in a couple of films during the early 1940s; the only one in which he made...

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The Spectator

Martin Gayford

A Tate show with dreamy, elusive power

One of the miracles of art history is how painting, so often written off, keeps on coming back. Right now we are in the middle of just such a...

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The Spectator

Martin Gayford

A Tate show with dreamy, elusive power

One of the miracles of art history is how painting, so often written off, keeps on coming back. Right now we are in the middle of just such a...

09.04.2026 20

The Spectator

Martin Gayford

Was Serbia the real birthplace of the Renaissance?

25.09.2025 20

The Spectator

Martin Gayford

The greatest decade for British painting since Turner and Constable? The 1970s

03.07.2025 20

The Spectator

Martin Gayford

Arts feature / ‘The possibilities of paint are never-ending’: Sir Frank Bowling interviewed

15.03.2025 20

The Spectator

Martin Gayford

‘The possibilities of paint are never-ending’: Sir Frank Bowling interviewed

13.03.2025 20

The Spectator

Martin Gayford