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Francesca Peacock

  • Rankin’s portrait of King Charles is a fascinating mixture of old and new

    The portrait may seem unconventional – but it is in keeping with the spirit of Cecil Beaton and Lord Snowdon

    Francesca Peacock 10 Nov 2023, 8:01pm
    Portrait of King Charles III for the Big Issue
  • Burma to Myanmar: a muddled history that sidelines the Rohingya genocide

    3/5

    The British Museum's exhibition aims to reveal the country's ‘behind the headlines’ story – but makes little of the plight of the Rohingya

    By Francesca Peacock 31 Oct 2023, 12:01am
    Shwe-chi-doe (kalaga) illustrating scenes from the Ramayana, c. 1900–30
  • ‘A city born from one man’s ego’: the glory of Alexandria

    5/5

    Islam Issa’s lively history of the city races through two millennia, taking us from Homer to 2011's Arab Spring, via Napoleon and EM Forster

    By Francesca Peacock 14 Oct 2023, 10:00am
    The Lighthouse of Alexandria, in an engraving by Philips Galle after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1572
  • Real Families: this show sidelines art for the message

    3/5

    Shifting family dynamics are the subject of the Fitzwilliam's latest – but it leaves you feeling this is art as information dissemination

    By Francesca Peacock 4 Oct 2023, 1:52pm
    JJ Levine, Alone Time
  • A smart novel of Soviet exiles and silky prose

    4/5

    Yelena Moskovich’s fourth novel, Nadezhda in the Dark, is an intriguingly written tale set over one night – and one sentence – in Berlin

    By Francesca Peacock 7 Sep 2023, 1:00pm
    Nadezhda in the Dark is Yelena Moskovich's fourth novel
  • How a cross-dressing, bullet-dodging, 17th century duchess blazed a trail for sci-fi

    Born 400 years ago, Margaret Cavendish was a philosopher, scientist – and the mother of a whole new genre of literature

    By Francesca Peacock 3 Sep 2023, 5:00pm
    Pioneer: a portrait of Margaret Cavendish by Peter Lely (1665)
  • Yes, Dürer was self-obsessed – but it made him a peculiar genius

    4/5

    As David Ekserdjian’s new study shows, to grasp the emotions and anxieties of the great German artist, just look hard at his beguiling work

    By Francesca Peacock 12 Aug 2023, 12:00pm
    Jesus Among the Doctors (1506, detail) by Albrecht Dürer
  • Wild bohemian youth on the 1950s French Riviera

    3/5

    A Wreath for the Enemy, Pamela Frankau’s re-issued 1954 novel, is beguiling and vivid, but shows this overlooked British writer’s flaws

    By Francesca Peacock 29 Jun 2023, 6:00pm
    The Promenade des Anglais in Nice in the 1950s
  • Carrie Mae Weems: brilliantly told tales with a bracing political edge

    4/5

    The Barbican’s triumphant retrospective cements the American photographer and filmmaker’s reputation as a master storyteller

    By Francesca Peacock 20 Jun 2023, 4:53pm
    A still from Carrie Mae Weem's seven-part film The Shape of Things
  • Banksy’s art is political drivel for the smug, right-thinking classes

    The Bristolian street artist is returning with a solo show in Glasgow. But the joke is on us for treating his ‘provocations’ as art

    Francesca Peacock 16 Jun 2023, 11:06am
    'Geddit?': Valentine's Day Mascara (2023) by Banksy
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  • Capturing the Moment: fascinating questions lost in a curatorial cacophony

    2/5

    Tate Modern's show invites rich comparisons between photography and painting, then becomes a baggy history of 20th- and 21st-century art

    By Francesca Peacock 12 Jun 2023, 11:57am
    Andreas Gursky, May Day IV (2000, detail)
  • This Coronation portrait of the King is perilously close to insulting

    In the painting, commissioned by the UAE British Embassy, the monarch sits among a cacophonous collage of images and cartoonish drawings

    Francesca Peacock 31 May 2023, 6:59pm
    A detail from Sacha Jafri's portrait of King Charles III
  • Zealous, sex-mad and ‘culturally insensitive’: is Stanley Spencer doomed?

    The artist has long caused outrage, but now that the Fitzwilliam in Cambridge has removed one of his paintings, the debate has intensified

    By Francesca Peacock 30 Apr 2023, 6:00am
    A detail from Spencer's Love Among the Nations (1935)
  • A violent, drunken, hallucinatory window into post-Soviet fiction

    5/5

    Intense and near-nauseating, Aleksandr Skorobogatov’s slim novel Russian Gothic is part-Gogol, part-Nabokov and thoroughly magnificent

    By Francesca Peacock 25 Apr 2023, 9:00am
    The Belarusian novelist Aleksandr Skorobogatov, pictured in Antwerp in 2022
  • Animals: Art, Science, & Sound: a zoological treasure at every turn

    4/5

    The British Library has delved deep into its vaults for a captivating and even moving show about our visual and sonic records of fauna

    By Francesca Peacock 20 Apr 2023, 12:01am
    A horse from the book on vetinary medicine 'Kitāb al-bayṭarah' by Azdī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAtīq, 1223 (detail)
  • Portraits of Dogs: a treat for art-lovers and dog-lovers alike

    5/5

    Ranging from Byron's beloved Lyon to Hockney's Stanley and Boodgie, the Wallace Collection's new show is a smartly curated delight

    By Francesca Peacock 28 Mar 2023, 4:12pm
    David Hockney's Dog Painting 30
  • The Queen and Her Corgis: intimate glimpses into Queen Elizabeth II’s family life

    4/5

    The late monarch's love of her faithful companions comes touchingly alive in this small but satisfying collection of photographs

    By Francesca Peacock 8 Mar 2023, 12:01am
    Elizabeth II with one of her corgis months into her reign in 1952 at Balmoral
  • A great museum re-opens with a superb Egyptian show – but why patronise us?

    3/5

    A £15 million investment has created a museum of two halves, led by a superb Egypt exhibition, but hampered by questionable curation

    By Francesca Peacock 16 Feb 2023, 12:01am
    Manchester Museum re-opens this weekend after 18 months of closure
  • Action, Gesture, Paint: So macho? Here’s kaleidoscopic proof that abstraction was anything but

    4/5

    Whitechapel's riveting show of female painters deftly scotches abstract expressionism's reputation for being an all-male club

    By Francesca Peacock 6 Feb 2023, 12:20pm
    Untitled (detail), by Wook-kyung Choi (1960s)
  • Turner in January: 200-year-old watercolours that seem shockingly modern

    5/5

    Brought out just once a year, but now in a bright new home, these works by the great Romantic artist have never looked better

    By Francesca Peacock 28 Dec 2022, 3:38pm
    Wonderfully shocking: Turner's The Piazzetta, Venice (1840)
  • ‘Did you see my Monet? It was pretty good’: how master art forger Tony Tetro fooled the world

    Tetro was so skilled he even considered faking money, and several of his works ended up in King Charles III's estate Dumfries House

    By Francesca Peacock 26 Dec 2022, 12:00pm
    'World's greatest art forger': Tony Tetro
  • What counts as treason? From medieval deer-poachers to Lord Haw-Haw, the story of a contentious law

    3/5

    A new National Archives exhibition captures 700 years of treason in seismic documents, such as Guy Fawkes’s original 1605 signed confession

    By Francesca Peacock 6 Nov 2022, 1:55pm
    A colourful poster from the early days of the Chartist movement, advertising a public meeting to be held on the Sands at Carlisle on 21 May 1839
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