Joanna Moorhead

1 week ago | theartnewspaper.com | Joanna Moorhead |Karen Chernick |Sarah P. Hanson |Tom Seymour

The World Press Photo award winner for 2025 is announced today, but there was little air of celebration around Samar Abu Elouf when she arrived at the exhibition in Amsterdam where her victorious shot took pride of place. Its subject is a boy called Mahmoud Ajjour, then age nine and now ten, who lost both his arms in an Israeli attack on Gaza a little over a year ago. When she took the picture, Abu Elouf says, she was thinking of her own four children, the youngest of whom is 12.

4 weeks ago | thetablet.co.uk | Joanna Moorhead

Portraits of a lost worldVelasco caught his country on the cusp of a change, spinning it into the new era we inhabit todayRegister for free to read this article in fullSubscribe for unlimited accessFrom just £37.50 quarterly   Print copy of The Tablet delivered directly to your door.   Complete access to all Tablet website content including all premium content.   Access to the weekly digital copy of The Tablet.   Full access to The Tablet’s archive – over 180 years of back issues.

1 month ago | thetablet.co.uk | Joanna Moorhead

“Lucian Freud,” said my friend, as we stood in front of a female nude, lying on her back, knees bent, a hard-boiled egg on a plate below her. It certainly was Freud-like: and in a show called “Colony of Ghosts” (to 17 April) that can’t be a coincidence. Register for free to read this article in fullSubscribe for unlimited accessFrom just £37.50 quarterly   Print copy of The Tablet delivered directly to your door.   Complete access to all Tablet website content including all premium content.

1 month ago | spectator.co.uk | Joanna Moorhead

Text size Small Medium Large Line Spacing Compact Normal Spacious Comments Think of a Mexican painting, and chances are you’ll conjure up an image of an eyebrow-knitted Frida Kahlo, or a riot of exotic figures by her husband Diego Rivera, or a brightly coloured guitarist by Rufino Tamayo. What you’re unlikely to have in mind is an earthy landscape with a dusty road leading to a nascent city, dotted with hyper-real plant life, and an eagle soaring under a vast, cloudy sky. This is ‘The Valley...

1 month ago | spectator.com.au | Joanna Moorhead

Think of a Mexican painting, and chances are you’ll conjure up an image of an eyebrow-knitted Frida Kahlo, or a riot of exotic figures by her husband Diego Rivera, or a brightly coloured guitarist by Rufino Tamayo. What you’re unlikely to have in mind is an earthy landscape with a dusty road leading to a nascent city, dotted with hyper-real plant life, and an eagle soaring under a vast, cloudy sky.