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Jonathan Jones

Jonathan Jones writes on art for the Guardian and was on the jury for the 2009 Turner prize

April 2025

  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Street, Berlin (detail), 1913

    ‘Muscle-flexing or urgent threat?’ How Trump’s assault on culture echoes the Nazis targeting ‘degenerate art’

  • Sphinx, 2024, by Ali Cherri.

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    Cosmic visions, Edwardian bling and Middle Eastern monuments – the week in art

  • 24A05<br>David Hockney
"Play within a Play within a Play and Me with a Cigarette" 2024-2025
Acrylic and collage on canvas
48 x 72"
© David Hockney
Photo Credit: Jonathan Wilkinson

    David Hockney 25 review – so moving I had tears in my eyes

  • Mat Collishaw installation at Seed 130, London

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    Adventures in AI, inner children unleashed and provocations from a master prankster – the week in art

  • Giuseppe Penone review – an ecstatic realm where trees and humans merge

  • Yoko by David Sheff review – a queasily one-sided defence

March 2025

  • Giuseppe Penone’s Respirare l’ombra (To Breathe the Shadow), 1999.

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    Towering trunks, disturbing dolls and deep-sea daydreams – the week in art

  • José María Velasco’s Rocks on the Hill of Atzacoalco, 1874.

    José María Velasco review – proudly dull Mexican was wasted in wonderland

  • Mirror With Birds, 1870, by Victor Hugo.

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    Gale warnings, gothic fantasies and a masterpiece of a garden – the week in art

  • The Castle with the Angel, 1863.

    Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo review – masterpieces from a man with a heart as big as the Notre Dame

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    The inner life of India, Warhol’s America and the Munch bunch – the week in art

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    Darkness from Serra, delights from Siena, and a polar bear sound asleep – the week in art

  • Anselm Kiefer review – creative giant crushed under Van Gogh’s starry might

  • Siena: The Rise of Painting review – a heart-stopping show about the moment western art came alive

  • Alison Watt: From Light review – hollow heads and spectral sheets loaded with meaning

February 2025

  • Alison Watt, Dream, 2024, oil on canvas

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    Cheeky monkeys, gored matadors and trompe l’oeil masks – the week in art

    Alison Watt pays homage to John Soane, Ella Kruglyanskaya honours Manet, and chaos comes for civilisation
  • Francis Bacon, Study for Portrait of P.L., no. 2, 1957, oil on canvas. © The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved / DACS. 
Francis Bacon painting which has been hung in the Colony Rooms, Soho

    ‘Champagne for my real friends!’ Francis Bacon masterpiece escapes to the artist’s old drinking den

    Seeing Bacon’s stunning depiction of his lover Peter Lacy hanging in a reincarnation of the watering hole where his skeletal friends would drink, stagger and cackle was a fleeting yet unforgettable experience
    • ‘Lucian Freud was thrilled when Leigh Bowery stripped naked’: how a wild club kid became the great painter’s muse

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      Fashion disruptors, phoney Picassos and St Paul’s goes psychedelic – the week in art

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      Titanic talents, fabulous florals and a river of black stone – the week in art

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