National Gallery, LondonThe English painter Frederick Cayley Robinson may be the least-known artist ever to have a show at the National Gallery. His is not a name on people's lips. Until recently, in fact, not many people wanted to look at his strange and silent paintings, with their highly ordered friezes of spellbound figures, so touched with fin-de-siècle melancholy and yearning. But perhaps the wheel of artistic fortune is about to turn.If it does, it may well be because Cayley Robinson's ar...
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The world's mightiest arts festival is imminent. Our critics pick the must-see Edinburgh showsComedyDoc Brown Zadie Smith's little brother was a big noise in UK hip-hop until comedy came calling. Now the artist formerly known as Ben Smith twins rap and standup to highly likable effect. Pleasance Courtyard (0131-556 6550), 4-29 August.Jeremy Lion Justin Edwards returns with a new show for his hilariously inappropriate children's entertainer, for which he won a Perrier nomination in 2005. The envi...
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Published 04-Jul-10
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EDINBURGH.- Christen Købke: Danish Master of Light is the first monographic exhibition of paintings by Christen Købke (1810?1848) to be shown outside Denmark. Købke is the greatest of the Danish Golden Age painters, yet he is still insufficiently known outside his native country. This exhibition will introduce one of the most remarkable European artists of the nineteenth century to British audiences. This show comprises 48 of Købke?s most beautiful and distinguished works spanning a variety of g...
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Published 04-Jul-10
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Connoisseurship is a handsome word, calling to mind the dry lips of Sir John
Pope-Hennessy and back copies of Apollo.
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Published 03-Jul-10
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Published 02-Jul-10
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A fascinating new show examines the controversial question of fakery, forgeries and mistaken identities in artThe National Gallery is about to open its worst exhibition ever. The pictures are deplorable: incompetent copies, botched restorations, outright fakes. The most painful thing for the gallery is that it bought most of them genuinely believing they were masterpieces.Close Examination: Fakes, Mistakes and Discoveries is the first major exhibition devoted to the work of the gallery's scienti...
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Published 29-Jun-10
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Published 28-Jun-10
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Nothing is more exciting to a biographer than the 'discovery' of a 'missing' portrait of their subject. But all too often, in their eagerness for new material, even scholars can be duped. Fortunately, scientific methods are making it easier to spot the fakes, as the National Gallery's new exhibition provesI remember as an undergraduate being impressed by the iconoclastic critic John Berger's argument that a fake old master ought to fetch as much on the open market as the real thing, since even t...
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Published 18-Jun-10
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Stevie Wonder hits the UK, Toy Story goes 3D, and it's the last ever Big Brother – our critics pick the unmissable events of the seasonPopStevie WonderAnyone who can't face braving Glastonbury to see the Motown legend's Sunday-night set can head to London's Hyde Park for this headlining show. It's likely to be heavy on the hits, but a little too heavy on the audience participation, if complaints from disgruntled punters at Wonder's recent shows are anything to go by. And be warned: Jamiroquai se...
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Published 23-May-10
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