Art in focus: July/August 2024

03/07/2024 | Reform

El AnantsuiThe Restless Earth, 2017Fabric and mixed media

This massive ‘cloth’ or hanging – or sculpture – is the work of Ghanaian artist El Anantsui. It is made from hundreds of flattened bottle tops, aluminium tins and other found objects, … Read More

Art in Focus: June 2024

03/06/2024 | Reform

CaravaggioThe Seven Works of Mercy, 1606Oil on canvasNaples, Pio Monte della Misericordia

In an early episode of the Netflix series Ripley, Tom Ripley gazes enigmatically at Caravaggio’s Seven Works of Mercy. The painting was commissioned as an altarpiece by an … Read More

Art in Focus: May 2024

29/04/2024 | Reform

Marc ChagallAbraham and the Three Angels, c.1960-66Musée National Marc Chagall, Nice, France

The Hospitality of Abraham, the icon by the great Russian iconographer Rublev (pictured below), is very well known. This painting of the same scene by Marc Chagall is … Read More

Art in Focus: April 2024

26/03/2024 | Reform

John the Evangelist, Gunda Gunde Gospel Book, Ethiopia c. 1540Ink and paint on parchmentWalters Art Museum, Baltimore

Ethiopian art is having a moment. Two major exhibitions in the United States have just closed – Africa and Byzantium at New York’s Metropolitan … Read More

Art in Focus: March 2024

28/02/2024 | Reform

Self Portrait as a Shopping TrolleyOil on canvas, 2021Kate Wilson

If you were asked to think of yourself as an everyday object, what would it be?…

Art in focus is curated by Meryl Doney

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Art in Focus: February 2024

29/01/2024 | Reform

Joseph the Carpenter, 1642Georges de La TourLouvre, Paris

The painter Georges de la Tour is known for his use of light, especially candlelight. Here his figures are simply rendered, and the colours chosen so that the one light source creates … Read More