Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Saturated with innuendo: detail from Edward Burra’s John Deth (Hommage to Conrad Aiken), 1931 - The estate of Edward Burra, ...

And it’s not about trying desperately to come up with a new angle; it’s about bringing the artist alive in a new way to a new audience that isn’t patronising or self-indulgent. As this is telly and ...

Edward Burra Minuit Chanson 1931 (Image: Private Collection © The estate of Edward Burra, courtesy Lefevre Fine Art, London/Bridgeman Images) A top art curator has ...

Looking back at 2025, the standout UK Art Exhibitions show that there wasn’t a single aesthetic or tidy narrative linking everything together.

Edward Burra has never found a secure or simple place in the history of 20th-century art, and as a consequence, many have found it convenient simply to leave him out. In his own time, he was ...

Is this a safe space to share how much I loathe the blockbuster art exhibition? Overcrowded galleries full of gawpers taking photos of famous paintings, with no room to engage with an artist’s life’s ...

Winter: Burra was painting people while his contemporaries were obsessed with the avant-garde 'Edward Burra: 20th Century Eye' by Jane Stevenson offers magnificent insight into the talented painter's ...

WHILE his contemporaries in the art world preoccupied themselves with chocolate-box landscapes Edward Burra delighted in depictions of “sin flaunting with a painted grin” in seedy urban ghettos. WHILE ...

In January 1934, a young English painter called Edward Burra sailed for New York. As so often in his life, he was looking for an escape. Trapped inside a prematurely aged body, crippled by a ...

Saturated with innuendo: detail from Edward Burra’s John Deth (Hommage to Conrad Aiken), 1931 - The estate of Edward Burra, courtesy Lefevre Fine Art Tate Britain’s latest offer? Two exhibitions for ...