German artist Georg Baselitz dies aged 88 Prominent contemporary visual artist explored range of techniques across six decades of work The Guardian - UK · Apr 30
Cologne Cathedral’s plans to charge for tickets spark outcry Limiting access to German church to well-off visitors would be ‘socially unjust’, critics say The Guardian - UK · Mar 11
The best art and photography of 2025 – from eye-boggling Bridget Riley to the Face’s riotous fashion Jenny Saville’s bruising paintings, Andy Goldsworthy’s immersive stones, Lee Miller’s surrealist shots and Diane Arbus’s unforgiving nudes – our critics highlight a spectacular year The Guardian - UK · Dec 22, 2025
Culture Digest: The best things to do, hear, see or watch in Europe this week A retrospective for the world's 'greatest living artist'; Timothée Chalamet's star turn as a success obsessed table tennis player; volume 2 of Strange Things season 5 - and our best songs of the year! Here's ho-ho-how to spend the festive week. Euronews · Dec 22, 2025
‘Made my hair fly up’: the electrifying genius of Paris’s Gerhard Richter extravaganza – review He has painted everything from a candle to 9/11, walked his naked wife through photographic mist, and turned Titian into a sacred jumble. This thrilling show, boasting 270 works, reveals the German in all his contradictory brilliance The Guardian - UK · Oct 21, 2025
A new coffee-table book shows one thing: celebrity artists should not be allowed near Auschwitz We won’t deepen our understanding of the Holocaust with vanity projects like Juergen Teller’s misguided new work, says author Agata Pyzik The Guardian - UK · Aug 7, 2025
Best abstract art: originals and prints to heighten your home Gestural pieces that offer an escape from reality Evening Standard · Jun 4, 2024
CBSO/Yamada review – Anna Clyne’s Atlas is a brilliantly coloured musical scrapbook This piano concerto co-commissioned by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra is one of quicksilver changes of mood conveyed brilliantly by Jeremy Denk The Guardian - UK · May 2, 2024
Gerhard Richter unveils new sculpture at Serpentine South Gerhard Richter revisits themes of pattern and repetition in ‘Strip-Tower’ at London’s Serpentine South Wallpaper · Apr 24, 2024
Gerhard Richter review – ‘so disorientating I almost fell over’ Colours fuse and split, curdle, judder and smear in the elusive work of a nonagenarian artist still out to surprise The Guardian - UK · Jan 29, 2024
Roman Abramovich amassed one of the world’s most impressive private stores of modern art The Guardian’s art critic examines the collection amassed by the oligarch and his ex-wife Dasha Zhukova, which includes Freuds, Picassos and Russian modernism The Guardian - UK · Sep 22, 2023
Chris Ofili: Requiem review – Grenfell Tower as a burning cage in an ocean of despair The artist’s dramatic site-specific work, partly a memorial to artist Khadija Saye, who died in the fire, is like a transition between life and death or grief and acceptance The Guardian - UK · Sep 13, 2023
Capturing The Moment review: a painting and photography journey There is “a lot going on” in Tate Modern’s new exhibition, said Laura Freeman in The Times. Subtitled “A journey through painting and photography”, the show is a huge and ambitious attempt to explore the relationship between painting and photography from the early 20th century to the present day, examining… The Week · Jun 23, 2023
Capturing the Moment review – not a serious exhibition You can’t move for masterpieces – most of them owned by the Taiwanese collector Pierre Chen – but this supposed journey through painting and photography is rambling and at times comically simplistic The Guardian - UK · Jun 18, 2023
The Guardian - UK · Apr 15, 2023 The week in classical: Reich/Richter; St John Passion – review The grand 2019 collaboration between Steve Reich and Gerhard Richter faced stiff competition from an Anna Clyne miniature
The Guardian - UK · Apr 7, 2023 London Sinfonietta/Kamps review – intricacies of Reich/Richter fascinate and overwhelm The Sinfonietta performed Reich’s ensemble piece as it was originally intended – with Richter’s abstract film projected behind it
The Independent UK · Mar 31, 2023 Berlin museum presents 100 works by artist Gerhard Richter A new show of works by one of Germany’s most famous living artists, Gerhard Richter, has opened at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie museum
Evening Standard · Mar 27, 2023 No Vermeer, no problem — 9 fabulous European art escapes Didn’t snag tickets to Amsterdam’s sold-out Vermeer exhibition? No stress — get your arty fix at other top-tier European galleries instead
The Guardian - UK · Jun 12, 2022 Haunted Realism review – a queasy, intoxicating view of late capitalism Rachel Whiteread, Gerhard Richter, Jenny Saville and co explore the age of ‘lost futures’ in a group show that works best unimpeded by theory
The Guardian - UK · Jun 9, 2022 Steve Reich: Reich/Richter review – intricate riffs on the rhythms of painter’s abstract film The patterns of a work by Gerhard Richter inspire one of Reich’s most impressive recent pieces, elegantly performed in 2020
Asharq Al-Awsat · May 7, 2022 Warhol Monroe Portrait Set to Smash Records at New York Sales An Andy Warhol portrait of Marilyn Monroe worth an estimated $200 million headlines this month's spring sales in New York that collectors say are among the most anticipated ever. Christie's expects Warhol's 1964 "Shot Sage Blue Marilyn" to become the priciest 20th century artwork when the auction house puts it…