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A Life of Picasso Volume III: The Triumphant Years 1917-1932 by John Richardson

    Picasso may have been fiercely superstitious but he was not prone to self-reflection, so he would never have realised just how lucky he was. Pretty much everything in his life worked his way. Surviving to 92 was a basic advantage that few artists had had. So was being in Paris at the moment of western […]

    Walter Sickert – murderous monster or sly self-promoter?

      The Courtauld’s show of sad, dark nudes proves just what a clever observer of our foibles he was

      There will be no miracles here

        Now, that’s where you’re wrong.It’s a miracle this crew made the Turner prize at all

        Hunting for gold in Peru

          Waldemar Januszczak indulges his obsession with buried treasure on an adventure through the jungles and mountains

          Seduced at the Barbican

            I want to write this week about good sex and bad sex. In art, that is. The country seems to be going through one of its recurrent touchy periods on these topics, and an exhibition called Seduced, which has popped up at exactly the right moment at the Barbican Art Gallery, claims to be trying […]

            Charting pop art’s appeal

              A trio of flawed but revealing shows

              Why Frieze is hot

                London’s Frieze fair is the hippest place to be this week: and the art will be pretty good, too

                The talking heads of Easter Island

                  Easter Island’s monumental moai have a bizarre story to tell. Our correspondent listens to the stones

                  Millais at Tate Britain

                    Tate Britain’s fine Sir John Everett Millais show restores his reputation – even as it throws up another sickly problem

                    Turning the art world on its head

                      Georg Baselitz continues with his war cries