Jasper Johns, Untitled, 2014. Acrylic on canvas, 21 x 30-1/2 inches. Jasper Johns/VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY; via Matthew Marks Gallery
Friday, May 17th, 2019

Uncomfortable Questions: Jasper Johns at Matthew Marks

Mordant “late” works were on view earlier this spring

Lucian Freud, Sleeping by the Lion Carpet, 1996. Oil on canvas, 89 x 47 inches. The Lewis Collection
Wednesday, June 6th, 2018

A Big Umbrella: “All Too Human” at Tate Britain

Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life, on view through August 27

Friday, August 22nd, 2014

Lucian Freud at artcritical

“HUBS” is a new category on artists and subjects discussed multiple times at artcritical.

Leigh Bowery and Lucian Freud: Photo by Bruce Bernard, 1992 © Estate of Bruce Bernard (Virginia Verran)
Wednesday, April 30th, 2014

“Amazingly Aware and Amazingly Abandoned”: Lucian Freud and Leigh Bowery

an exclusive extract from her new biography, Lucian Freud: Eyes Wide Open

Jasper Johns, Untitled, 2013. Ink on Plastic27-1/2 x 36 inches. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Promised gift from a private collection. Art © Jasper Johns/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. Photograph: Jerry Thompson
Thursday, April 24th, 2014

Rubber Stamped Regrets: Jasper Johns at MoMA

Exhibition as exercise in shoring up reputation

Thursday, October 6th, 2011

The Dutchmen’s Heir: Jenny Saville at Gagosian

The author is having a Frankenstein moment.  “Continuum” continues on Madison Ave through October 22.

David Dawson, David Hockney; Lucian Freud, 2003. C-type colour print, ?10 3/8 x 15 1/2 inches. Courtesy of the Artist
Friday, July 22nd, 2011

Lucian Freud Remembered

In tribute to the British painter, artcritical offers a garland of reviews from our archives

Friday, July 22nd, 2011

Lucian Freud, 1922-2011

We looked up to Freud as a symbol of seriousness, of investigative tenacity.

Lucian Freud, Man with a Blue Scarf, 2004. Oil on canvas, 66 x 50.8 cm. Private Collection. Lucian Freud archive, photography by John Riddy. Works by Lucian Freud © 2010 Lucian Freud.
Wednesday, July 13th, 2011

Anatomy of a Sitting: Lucian Freud Paints A Portrait

Review of Martin Gayford’s recent book, Man with a Blue Scarf

Sebastian Smee, Art Critic of the Boston Globe
Monday, April 18th, 2011

Pulitzer won by Boston Globe Art Critic Sebastian Smee

Only the third art critic to pick up this prestigious prize.