Jackie Wullschlager/2008

Articles: 2008

 * Not so happily ever after - Whether the fairy tale has flourished in popular culture, or been diluted and diminished by global branding, is a question raised by a range of new books on the genre - 20th December 2008
 * Breathing fresh life into a faded genre - Jackie Wullschlager reviews two landscape shows that are among the most optimistic and enjoyable exhibitions currently riding high on brilliant gloom - 20th December 2008
 * Paintings in Proust - This visual companion to the French writer’s work is the year’s most seductively intelligent art book - 15th December 2008
 * Indian art defies global conceptualism - Local strengths still manage to speak louder in the UK’s most ambitious attempts yet to distil coherence into the rush of works from the subcontinent. Interesting because it is so unlikely - 12th December 2008
 * Bittersweet modern Russian art - Two shows concentrate on photography, film and installation, and argue persuasively for a continuing distinctive sensibility in Russian art - 6th December 2008
 * The History of British Art - Tate’s account is bold attempt to return those on the historical margins to the mainstream - 6th December 2008
 * The perceptual world - Painting in the 21st century now looks distinctive: surfaces are dizzying, references are sophisticated. Jackie Wullschlager reviews the work of two prodigious British artists - 29th November 2008
 * Fitzwilliam Museum’s centenary show - The Cambridge institution celebrates the flair and aesthetics of its former director Sydney Cockerell, who Jackie Wullschlager sees as a caricature of an exhibitionist - 22nd November 2008
 * Paintings from the 1980s - For Jackie Wullschlager, the Tate Modern exhibition recaptures the heady, over-the-top mood of the 1980s, with canvases dramatising America’s need for a new aesthetic - 15th November 2008
 * Creating space for contemporary art - For Charles Saumarez Smith, Royal Academy of Arts chief, the institution’s newest event strives to cut through the genres of conventional art practice - 1st November 2008
 * Renaissance portraiture - A show at the National Gallery during Frieze week shows that the more human individuality is threatened, the more intensely we turn to painted portraits - 25th October 2008
 * Chagall’s roots in Russia - In researching her new biography of the émigré, Jackie Wullschlager discovers that no artist had a richer, more intensely ambivalent relationship with his homeland - 18th October 2008
 * Lunch with the FT: Sam Taylor-Wood - 17th October 2008
 * A museum of one’s own - Worldwide a new generation of collectors seek immortality in extravagant establishments of glass and steel, designed by an architect of their choosing - 11th October 2008
 * The stuff of people’s prayers and dreams - Charles Saatchi’s inaugural exhibition at his new gallery in Chelsea is the most persuasive showing of contemporary Chinese art yet mounted in Britain - 11th October 2008
 * Maeght: The great postwar art dealer - A heartbreakingly beautiful show celebrates the last epoch when artists were unquestioningly, compulsively makers and constructors - 4th Octover 2008
 * Grand tour of Italy - Jackie Wullschlager takes her family on a three-week, cross-country rendezvous with the country’s historic towns - 4th October 2008
 * Mark Rothko at Tate Modern - The exhibition focuses on the artist’s difficult late period of impenetrable canvases, marked by deep brooding reds shading to purple and black - 26th September 2008
 * Formal splendour, ugly panic - Francis Bacon’s Tate Britain retrospective marks him as one of the most raw, physical and urgently affecting painters of the 20th century - 13th September 2008
 * Beauty and the beasts - Damien Hirst’s ‘Beautiful Inside My Head Forever’ exhibition features 223 of his latest pieces. Jackie Wullschlager finds his new formaldehyde zoo arresting as it is heart-breaking - 13th September 2008
 * The Midas touch that turns the art world lethally cold - Damien Hirst’s sale next week of 223 new pieces at Sotheby’s marks an insidious change in art’s relationship with money - 12th September 2008
 * Saints, sinners and sincerity - “Better a genius without faith than a believer without talent. We must take them as they are, barely Christian at all,” admitted Père Courturier - 6th September 2008
 * Gamble on well-being - You ask how a man can gamble away his last kopek...” – Dostoyevsky to his brother, 1863 - 16th September 2008
 * New wives’ tales - book reviews: A Dangerous Liaison, Germaine de Staël & Benjamin Constant: A Dual Biography, Madame de Maintenon: The Secret Wife of Louis XIV, Hidden in the Shadow of the Master: The Model Wives of Cezanne, Monet & Rodin - 15th August 2008
 * The late flower - book review: So I Have Thought of You: The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald - 2nd August 2008
 * The birth of tubism - “Grateful but unhappy”: writer Annette Kolb’s response to exile in America during the second world war summed up the feeling of most artistic refugees from Nazism - 25th July 2008
 * Freedom in three dimensions - Sculpture is the best comment a painter can make on his paintings,” said Picasso. “A drawing is a sculpture,” said Matisse. “White paint is my marble,” says Cy Twombly - 19th July 2008
 * The Magic Mountain - book review: The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann - 19th July 2008
 * An angular vision - Hemingway said he looked like “an unsuccessful rapist”, Paul Nash thought him “strangely sub-human” and to WH Auden he was “that lonely old volcano”. Wyndham Lewis styled himself “The Enemy”, and certainly by the time he had anatomised London society in his satirical novel The Apes of God, he had barely friend or patron left - 5th July 2008
 * The Blue Flower - review: The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald - 30th June 2008
 * Rooms without a view - The drama of “The Scream” and the poetry of silence: Edvard Munch, born in 1863, and Vilhelm Hammershoi, born 1864, are the only Nordic painters in history who outgrew their native countries to become a presence in European art - 28th June 2008