Archive - Paintings!

Man walks into an art gallery

A morning at the National Gallery, from first principles

Nov 22, 2023 •

June 2023

That’s all there is

On AI guys, art and ‘the rest’ of the painting

Jun 3, 2023 •

February 2023

The lord of limits

Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum.

Feb 15, 2023 •

October 2022

Run! Don't Walk!

To see two paintings by Lowry in Duke Street St. James

Oct 18, 2022 •

July 2022

Picasso and Richardson

Jul 27, 2022 •

June 2022

Sheet Lightning

Edvard Munch’s moment at the Courtauld

Jun 23, 2022 •

May 2022

Day at the Museum

Yesterday I spent seven hours at the Met

May 25, 2022 •

Sargent, Rothko

Things I saw at the Tate Britain

May 9, 2022 •

December 2021

Who's afraid of a painted wall?

Paintings! goes to Pickering. Plus: Hals, Poussin.

Dec 3, 2021 •

November 2021

Constable at the RA

Everything normal is unimaginable eventually.

Nov 15, 2021 •

September 2021

‘Those Angel Boys’

A secret in Caravaggio’s Seven Works of Mercy

Sep 22, 2021 •

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Sep 10, 2021 •

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