ART
April 2016
Conceptualism was briefly a vital response to commercialism in modern art. Then it ran out of ideas
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March 2016
Two new shows rescue the pioneer of Renaissance classicism and the Pre-Raphaelite hero from cliché
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January/February 2016
Monet was the first among many artists of his era who combined horticulture and painting
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December 2015
A Tate exhibition successfully argues that the empire transformed British art as much as British trade
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Written each month by Standpoint's resident art critic, Michael Prodger
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