Baselitz did not make overtly political art. He felt that what mattered in painting existed on a deeper level than...

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This was the history that counted: the Nazi attack on ‘degenerate’ art before the war, and the continued presence of...

1937-2026

1937-2026

On 'Henry Moore: Monumental Nature' at Kew Gardens, until 31.01.27

The Nazi's and especially Hitler found certain styles of art so grotesquely offensive that they even held a Degenerate Art exhibition

The UK’s Climate Change Act is a landmark piece of legislation that guides the nation’s response to global warming and has proved highly influential around the world.

When it comes to art, Trump is an utter vacuum—he makes the Nazis look like great connoisseurs, says author John-Paul Stonard

From my diary

Trees, clouds, stags and death.

On a family portrait, and a historic survey of the Persian Gulf

Museums are “remarkably unwilling to acknowledge their own status as democratic institutions, the bedrock of civic society and our most important public spaces”

And Constable's commendable copy.

And Constable's commendable copy.

On a family portrait, and a historic survey of the Persian Gulf

And the greatest painting in the world.

A revised version of this post with the addition of the beguiling and slow moving video piece by Jane Watt, ‘Flora Spectrum Orford Ness’, 2024.

HERE IS E.M.