Articles

  • 3 weeks ago | theartnewspaper.com | Matthew Holman

    In his studio on Lake Ammersee in Upper Bavaria, the 87-year-old Georg Baselitz spreads his canvases out on the floor, a way of working he has used for years. On them, he paints full body figures, often two side by side but sometimes a single body, alone and lost in space. The next stage, now presented for the first time, is new. Pulled on a rope across the canvas by an assistant, Baselitz marks the canvas’s surface with the swirling parallel tracks of his wheelchair.

  • 1 month ago | cripps.co.uk | Matthew Holman

    Join Matthew Holman in conversation with Jamie Susskind, best-selling author, barrister and expert on AI legal issues and Sir Robert Buckland KC, former Lord Chanceller and Justice Secretary. For the first time ever we’re bringing you The AI and Data Show: Live! and it’s all happening at the Conduit Club. Join us in person for an exclusive morning of bold ideas, big questions and brilliant minds tackling the biggest topic of the year.

  • 2 months ago | theartnewspaper.com | Matthew Holman |Alexander Adams |Andrew Pulver |José Da Silva

    The British artist Lucian Freud (1922-2011) was famously private—he communicated mostly by phone but rarely gave out his number, which he changed often—so the task of cajoling him to agree to the investigative demands of a catalogue raisonné proved challenging. While the artist was amenable to helping piece together his works in chronological order, he had little desire to construct an archive in his own lifetime.

  • Mar 20, 2025 | cripps.co.uk | Matthew Holman

    Join Matthew and the AI elves for April’s edition of the AI and data show. If you are looking for an inspiring AI and data webinar series that breaks down the complicated issues of this discipline in an informative but light-hearted way, this is the webinar for you. It’s designed to be brief, useful and to fit into your working day. Webinar details:Date: 2 April 2025Time: 12.30pm – 1.15pmRegister your place. What we will discuss:How will AI affect jobs in the coming years?

  • Mar 10, 2025 | theartnewspaper.com | Matthew Holman |Anny Shaw |Chloë Ashby |Louisa Buck

    The Manchester-based artist Louise Giovanelli’s career has been in the ascent ever since she was one of the stand-out artists in the seminal painting exhibition Mixing it Up: Painting Today at the Hayward Gallery in 2021. She was snapped up by the blue-chip gallery White Cube in 2022 (which co-represents her with Amsterdam-based Grimm) and is now having her first major institutional solo show, A Song of Ascents, at the Hepworth Wakefield in northern England.