Laura Cumming: best art of 2016
Portraits woke up, the tiny Goldfinch flew in, the Switch House switched on, and junk art triumphed
Painting
Robert Rauschenberg review – six sensational decades of work finally reveal the man in full
Tate Modern, London
Driven by an insatiable curiosity, the groundbreaking artist took the triumphs and wreckage of American life and turned them into art – and this brilliant show captures his extraordinary range
We need to remove the mask of history from female artists
Madrid’s Prado gallery has finally, after 200 years, put on its first show devoted to a female painter, Clara Peeters. We need far more like it, to understand the greatness of women working under heavy patriarchies
Bob Dylan: a Hockney-like painter of America’s strange essence
Dylan’s art marks him out as a staunch traditionalist – but his powers of observation make his canvases evocative celebrations of life itself
Scottish heritage helped build the whisky business. Now it’s payback time
Diageo should donate Sir Edwin Landseer’s The Monarch of the Glen painting to a museum in Scotland
Le Meurice Prize for contemporary art 2016-2017
Artistic creation has always been, since 1835, essential to the art of living at Le Meurice, the 5-star hotelin the 1st arrondissement of Paris opposite the Tuileries Garden, between Place de la Concorde and the Musée duLouvre on the Rue de Rivoli. The winner of the 9th edition of the Meurice Prize for contemporary art … Read more