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of the 20th century. Challenging Convention, brilliantly curated by the Laing’s keeper of art Lizzie Jacklin, features 60 works of Vanessa Bell (1879-1961), Laura Knight (1877-1970), Gwen John (1876-1939) and Dod Procter (1890-1972), drawn from up to 30 lenders. The artists were contemporaries, living in times of enormous changes and the exhibition highlights the strides they made in a male-dominated field. Gwen John, sister of the celebrated painter Augustus John, found fame while living and working in Paris. She preferred solitude and avoided “family conventions and ties”, y...

A revelatory biography of the Bloomsbury outsider and influential critic who championed modern art Detail of a portrait of Clive Bell by Roger Fry circa 1924. Photograph: Alamy Detail of a portrait of Clive Bell by Roger Fry circa 1924. Photograph: Alamy Wed 5 May 2021 04.00 EDT One day when he was looking along his bookshelves, Mark Hussey realised that they contained no biography of Clive Bell. You can see why it would strike the distinguished Bloomsbury scholar as odd. Over the past 50 years a veritable industry of gossipy life-writing has grown up around even the most minor denizens of ea...

Cézanne Reconsidered Fig. 1. Nature morte de pêches et poires (Still life with Peaches and Pears) by Paul Cezanne (1839–1906), c. 1885–1887. Oil on canvas, 14 ⅝ by 17 ¾ inches. Private collection; photograph courtesy of Bridgeman Images and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. “Others abide our question,” Matthew Arnold said of Shakespeare, “thou art free!” 1 Arnold meant that the Bard, in his sublime universality, soared above those petty reckonings that critics apply to all other cultural figures. Which makes one wonder whether Paul Cézanne abides our question. One suspects ...

/ Western art before the 20th-century was dominated by male artists. There had been celebrated female painters, such as Artemisia Gentileschi, Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun and Rosa Bonheur, but it wasn’t until the early 1900s that women began to enjoy comparable success with their male counterparts.  The exhibition features more than sixty works by the four artists Now a new exhibition at the Laing Art Gallery explores this breakthrough which has been taken for granted for nearly a century. The roots of this lay in the Victorian era, when those born, raised and educated in the later d...