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Jo Lawson-Tancred

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European News Reporter at Artnet

Art Writer, Critic, and Journalist at Freelance

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  • 5 days ago | news.artnet.com | Jo Lawson-Tancred

    This week sees the long anticipated public debut of the spruced-up Sainsbury Wing at London’s National Gallery. The occasion brings a splashy close to a year of bicentenary celebrations, marked also by the first major rehang of the entire permanent collection since the Sainsbury Wing first opened in 1991.

  • 6 days ago | news.artnet.com | Jo Lawson-Tancred

    Just after 6 p.m. today in Italy, a plume of white smoke rose from the roof of the Sistine Chapel, signaling to millions of observers in Vatican City and around the world that a new leader of the Catholic Church has been chosen. As the highly anticipated conclave came to a close, bells rang out over St. Peter’s Square and crowds of onlookers jumped for joy and prayed in celebration. But what exactly went on while 133 cardinals from across the world were casting their vote?

  • 1 week ago | news.artnet.com | Jo Lawson-Tancred

    There is no shortage of 20th-century British artists who have made their name for pioneering a thoroughly modern approach to figurative painting at a time when abstraction was all the rage. Yet, while the likes of David Hockney, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, and Lucian Freud are celebrated the world over, one of Britain’s most beloved national treasures has remained more of a local celebrity, even overlooked by the snobby London art world.

  • 1 week ago | news.artnet.com | Jo Lawson-Tancred

    Widely regarded as the father of modern sculpture, Auguste Rodin is one of those historical greats who is known simply by his last name. He has not one, but three museums dedicated to his legacy around the world, in Paris, Philadelphia, and Shanghai. Proud as he would surely be of his own legacy, Rodin would be dismayed to discover that Medardo Rosso, the arch-rival he so admired and envied, has been almost entirely overlooked.

  • 1 week ago | news.artnet.com | Jo Lawson-Tancred

    The first Monday of May is nearly upon us… and with it one of the more eagerly anticipated Met Galas of recent years. Coinciding with the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s upcoming exhibition “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” celebrity guests to the glamorous annual event will channel the inventive verve and defiance of Black dandyism.

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5 Mar 25

RT @JakeElwes: Fantastic article by @JoLawsonTancred https://t.co/ZIoi7HecfN

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4 Mar 25

RT @rainisto: @JoLawsonTancred wrote an excellent article about the Christie's AI auction reaction - link to her article in the thread. I…

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7 Feb 25

RT @artnet: English musician Pete Doherty is presenting a survey of his infamous "blood paintings" and new art in a Berlin exhibition. http…