Exhibitions

Woody Allen once sardonically described the fans of his films as being divided between those who liked the “early, funny ones” and the later, darker pictures. Much the same might be said of another famous WA: Wes Anderson, who has established himself as one of American cinema’s most significant auteurs despite no longer living in the country – he hops between England and France. Like most auteurs, his films are more succèss d’estime than they are succèss de box office, but he has the cream of Hollywood lining up to work with him and commands respect among actors young and old. Anderson is rightly celebrated – or castigated – as

Orson Welles (1915-85) considered the notion of posterity vulgar, but he knew that he’d be loved once he was dead. That death came suddenly, just over 40 years ago, on October 10, 1985. There was a poignancy to the way death took him – sitting at his typewriter after appearing on Merv Griffin’s talk show. By then, the co-writer, director and star of the greatest film ever made, Citizen Kane (1941), hadn’t finished a film since 1973’s ignored but now quietly loved F for Fake. At the end of his life, he may have been better known as the guy in Paul Masson wine commercials than as a cinematic genius.

It’s a strange time, McEwen reflects, to be an artist

The paintings become mysteries, enticing and deserving of attention precisely because there are so few

New York is great in summer, but the art scene can sometimes be fleeting

In his imperfect, weird way, the artist was trying to understand something so deeply beautiful in itself, mere created beings cannot fully grasp it

I began to find the uncanny experience transporting

The popular perception of the loneliness in the painter’s work could not be more wrong

The artist created his own synthetic Spanish vision

The Met brings out its bread and butter: stunning galleries devoted to Greek and Roman art

Cultural mavens shouldn’t miss out on a knockout exhibition curated by Emily King

The Museum of Modern Art is seeing red with Matisse

Winslow Homer has been put out to sea at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Milton Avery was able to carve out his own path, distinct from modernism’s march through history

Adman to American existentialist: Edward Hopper at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts