Rod Mengham is a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. His most recent book was 'Midnight in the Kant Hotel: Art in Present Times' (2021).

How Bomberg and Auerbach reached dizzying heights

Before and after the Second World War, David Bomberg explored a vertiginous new style of landscape painting – and his student Frank Auerbach was clearly taking notes

10 Jul 2024

Georg Baselitz turns the world on its head

As the painter becomes older, the topsy-turvy figures that populate his invigorating canvases are becoming more skeletal

26 Apr 2024