Check out some more great writing in The Observer by @lauracummingart.bsky.social this week on the beaches of Le Harve and Monet, especially about his Impressionist mentor, Eugène Boudin.
Laura Cumming
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Art Critic The Observer. Critic of the Year 2024. Thunderclap - Book of 2024, @SaltireBook, Non-Fiction Winner @WritersPrize. On Chapel Sands, The Vanishing Man @ChattoBooks. Rep @pew_literary
Joan Eardley: The Sea at Catterline – seascapes to rival Turner? The Scottish artist of stirring genius has long been deserving of a major retrospective. This celebration of her exhilarating seascapes shows why ✍️ @lauracummingart.bsky.social https://bit.ly/4zSrsFf
Joan Eardley: The Sea at Catterline – seascapes to rival Turner?
The Scottish artist of stirring genius has long been deserving of a major retrospective. This celebration of her exhilarating seascapes shows why
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The man who taught Monet to see the light A new exhibition shows how the Impressionist found his style under the tutelage of Eugène Boudin ✍️ @lauracummingart.bsky.social https://bit.ly/4ytubmL
The man who taught Monet to see the light | The Observer
A new exhibition shows how the Impressionist found his style under the tutelage of Eugène Boudin
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Brilliant review (by @lauracummingart.bsky.social) of Hermione Lee's new Anita Brookner biog.
In search of Anita Brookner | The Observer
Hermione Lee unravels the knotty life of the novelist and art historian – doing her the service of leaving all her mystery intact
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🎶Up where the air is clear, up through the atmosphere 🎶 Nice to see @lauracummingart.bsky.social quoting Mary Poppins in her splendid book Thunderclap 🎶Oh let’s go Fly a kite🎶
Well, my Gardam interest began when @lauracummingart.bsky.social brought Verona to Backlisted. And I would stupidly never have picked up a book with such a "women's bookclub" cover had I not listened. So 🙏.
George Shaw's great Graham Sutherland show at Modern Art, Oxford - as reviewed by the brilliant Laura Cumming @lauracummingart.bsky.social @modernartoxford.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Graham Sutherland: An Unfinished World – review
Graham Sutherland is shown at his ominous best in this fine show curated by the artist George Shaw, writes Laura Cumming
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Pete Rutherford@asneakypete.bsky.social · 6mo agoSutherland seems on the way to becoming a forgotten artist. There's much more than his Coventry Cathedral tapestry and Churchill portrait.
I've made a solemn promise to not be the guy posting every review of his book. But this one really grapples with what I was trying to do in London Falling. Thank you @lauracummingart.bsky.social observer.co.uk/culture/book...
Who really killed Zac Brettler? | The Observer
The London schoolboy liked to pretend he was a Russian gangster. In London Falling, Patrick Radden Keefe pieces together the ways that fantasy life came up against brutal reality
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How Seurat found peace by the sea | The Observer
Britain’s first show of the artist in nearly 30 years reveals his mastery of light and detail in calm, captivating seascapes. Plus, Lucian Freud’s graphic works sit beside his portraits
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Carel Fabritius born #OTD 1622 Dutch artist, with little surviving work which includes The Goldfinch, currently 'co-curating' an exhibition with Simon Schama @mauritshuis.bsky.social . If you can't get there read @lauracummingart.bsky.social magnificent Thunderclap www.mauritshuis.nl/en/what-s-on...
“Like her hero Edvard Munch, another energetic miserabilist, Emin favours exaggeration in the service of truth” @lauracummingart.bsky.social on Tracy Emin at Tate Modern. observer.co.uk/culture/art/...
Tracey Emin at Tate Modern review: return of the riotous queen of candour
Forty years of Tracey Emin’s tortured, trailblazing work is gathered in a major retrospective that finds the artist in search of past glories
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It's publication day! From the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU to everyone who has supported this book into being, and to the booksellers who are getting behind it now @unboundsocials.bsky.social
Delighted that excellent nonfiction editor at @thebookseller.com , @carosanderson.bsky.social has chosen The Tattooed Hills as one of her Top Ten April books, with blush inducing comments. Preorder link in bio etc. @quartobooksuk.bsky.social
Written largely in the present tense, this superb critique by @lauracummingart.bsky.social @theobserveruk.bsky.social should be an object lesson in art reviews. A Hawaiian Royal Spectacle has a unique immediacy, is full of fascinating detail & concludes magnificently. observer.co.uk/culture/art/...
A Hawaiian royal spectacle | The Observer
The Pacific island’s king and queen were the talk of London when they visited in 1824. Then disaster struck. A tremendous show of treasures at the British Museum relives their trip
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As usual the best review is by @lauracummingart.bsky.social (imho, obvs). The show was moving and not, in retrospect, the head-to-head matchup I’d expected. I left feeling that they’d made each other stronger artists than they could ever have been alone. observer.co.uk/culture/art/...
Turner and Constable as they’ve never been seen before | The Observer
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"This is one of the most exhilarating shows I’ve ever seen." Wonderful piece, by @lauracummingart.bsky.social, on the Tate's new Constable and Turner exhibition. Does anyone know if their Stonehenge pictures are in this show? observer.co.uk/culture/art/...
Turner and Constable as they’ve never been seen before | The Observer
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World-famous masterpieces and rarely exhibited works by Turner and Constable are put side by side in this monumental, thrilling show at Tate Britain, writes @lauracummingart.bsky.social. https://bit.ly/3XmjD8E
Turner and Constable as they’ve never been seen before | The Observer
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Absolutely loved this 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟show @tate @theobserveruk.bsky.social
The Observer@theobserveruk.bsky.social · 10mo agoWorld-famous masterpieces and rarely exhibited works by Turner and Constable are put side by side in this monumental, thrilling show at Tate Britain, writes @lauracummingart.bsky.social. https://bit.ly/3XmjD8E
I had always walked past the Dutch rooms at the National Gallery to visit the Italians But recently read the fantastic Thunderclap by @lauracummingart.bsky.social which made me realise they are much more interesting than I assumed at first.
One week to go to my Photo Oxford talk at @bodleianlibs about the photographic and artistic life of Constance Talbot. Hear about her witnessing the birth of #photography and maintaining a love of art throughout her life. 5th November 1-2pm Weston Library: photooxford.org/events/const...
Constance Talbot, early photographer and lifelong artist Talk by Rose Teanby — Photo Oxford
Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre, The Bodleian Library Wednesday, 5 November
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Must detour to see this #BehindBlueEyes
Laura Cumming@lauracummingart.bsky.social · 11mo agoPete Townsend and Prince in this ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ show from the great Arthur Jafa at Sadie Coles HQ and Karma Ashadu at Camden Arts Centre...loved these shows @theobserveruk.bsky.social @timadamswrites.bsky.social observer.co.uk/culture/art/...
