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Martin Gayford’s engrossing book is a goldmine of quotes, anecdotes and insights, from why Van Gogh painted on tea towels to why some artists find it hard to start a work and others don’t know when to stop.

The London-based art advisor takes Whitewall on a tour through her TEFAF Maastricht favorites, immersing us in 7000 years of art history.

What is beautiful? An idyllic landscape, a perfect body, a child’s rosy-cheeked face or an abstract colour tone? Is good art beautiful? Does an objective beauty exist at all? Or is it just a matter of taste?

Over to You is an ever-evolving meditation on images by the art critic and his youngest son, two men linked by blood and art.

As mid-October rolls around we’re enjoying some serious and not-so-serious art by Carrie Mae Weems, Mala Iqbal, Lady Shalamar Montague, and others.

The cow is an indelible feature of the rural and regional landscapes of Australia; more domestic than sheep and more productive than horses, but still as foreign as they are familiar.

From August 16 to December 1, 2024, the Kunstmuseum Bern presents a major retrospective on Chaïm Soutine, a significant figure in classical modernism.

Between 16 August and 1 December 2024 the Kunstmuseum Bern is devoting the major retrospective Chaïm Soutine: Against the Current to the painter Chaïm Soutine (1893–1943).

The tale of the artiste maudit is often spun to inject mystery and intrigue into the lives of great painters, that image of a tortured soul working all hours for peanuts, fingers worn to paint-splattered bone, barely sustained on a diet of mind-curdling absinthe and stale bread.

A retrospective at Denmark’s Louisiana Museum of Modern Art celebrates the painter’s distinctive style, characterized by frenetic brushstrokes, bold colors and distorted figuration that borders on abstraction.

On view at the Portland Art Museum this summer from the Brooklyn Museum’s renowned European art collection, Monet to Matisse: French Moderns showcases approximately 60 works of art considered to be modernist masterpieces.

Pablo Picasso was among the few who stood beside Chaim Soutine’s grave as his corpse was lowered into it. 

«Where do you come from?» – this can be a problematic question, depending on the context. For provenance research, however, it is a major question.

The painter Chaïm Soutine (1893–1943), has masterfully captured the time around and between the two world wars. From 9 February, his work is presented in a major exhibition at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark.

While giving a systematically overlooked modernist his due, a Düsseldorf retrospective continues a long art-historical tradition of obscuring Soutine’s painterly ambivalence.