Frank Auerbach, Head of Jake, 2008-9, oil on canvas, 56.2 x 56.2 cm./22 1/8 x 22 1/8 in. Frank Auerbach’s paintings are the full results of tremendous application. They may appear sudden -instantaneous even- but they are feats of concentration. Studied yet impulsive, ranging from darkness to radiance and from the declamatory to the subdued, [...]

Before and after pictures of a Banksy artwork in Stoke Newington, London. Council officials have painted over a Banksy graffito sketch from which a reworked version was derived as the cover artwork for the 2003 single Crazy Beat by the band Blur. The artwork – a cartoon of the royal family waving from a balcony [...]

The Queen’s Elm in London, once a renowned pub, has been turned by a group of artists into a temporary gallery. Three months ago Simon Tarrant, a 44-year-old painter here who has never had gallery representation and has had only two solo shows in his 15-year career, decided to try something different. He approached the [...]