Warhol’s self-portrait gives us a glimpse into the impenetrable artist
In Self-Portrait With Platinum Bouffant Wig, the king of pop art uses Marilyn Monroe to explore the relationship between identity and celebrity
Art
Mark Wallinger at the Freud Museum review – mirror mirror on the ceiling
Freud Museum, London
The British artist transforms Sigmund Freud’s study into a Dalí-inspired hall of mirrors for a meta-surrealist look at art, psychoanalysis and self-obsession
Edinburgh art festival 2016 review – where Lothian meets utopian
Christian Boltanski, Damián Ortega and Alice Neel impress in this year’s strongly international show, while Inverleith House celebrates in style
David Bowie’s private art collection to be unveiled for the first time
Works the late singer quietly collected over the years to go on display before being auctioned at Sotheby’s
The whole truth about Van Gogh’s ear, and why his ‘mad genius’ is a myth
A new exhibition claims Vincent Van Gogh’s mental illness hampered his work, rather than drove his singular vision – and presents fresh medical evidence about his notorious self-mutilation
Blés Vendôme, le jardin éphémère: Gad Weil for Les Blés de Chanel High Jewelry
Chanel and artist Gad Weil gave us the occasion to feel like Russel Crowe in the middle of an infinite wheat field in Ridley Scott’s Gladiator (2000). To feel the grains in your arms is an incomparable daydreaming state of mind. The wheat fields in the Place Vendôme in Paris is a poetic installation … Read more