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InSight No. 145
Cyril Mann March 15, 2024 As a new stage adaptation of Cyril Mann’s life opens at The Playground Theatre this week, InSight tells the story... Read more -
InSight No. 144
Frank Auerbach | Head of Julia - Profile II March 1, 2024 In the art of Frank Auerbach, reassuring continuities—of studios, sitters, idiom—are pitched against the desperate struggle to do it differently... Read more -
InSight No. 143
Henry Moore | Ideas for Sculpture: Reclining Figures February 16, 2024 Like Leonardo, Raphael and Michelangelo before him, Henry Moore was a doodler. He liked to doodle and he doodled with... Read more
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InSight No. 142
Jean Cooke | The Wild Plum Tree February 2, 2024 Like so many busy or preoccupied people, the painter Jean Cooke had a messy garden. She turned it to her... Read more -
InSight No. 141
Duncan Grant | Still Life January 12, 2024 Duncan Grant’s early still-life pictures contributed to a new universe of creativity that skilfully brought together easel painting, decorative objects... Read more -
InSight No. 140
Barbara Hepworth | Preparation December 21, 2023 InSight considers a poignant work of angelic humanist art by a titan of the modernist movement in Britain—Barbara Hepworth. InSight... Read more
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InSight No. 139
Frank Auerbach | Head of Laurie Owen I December 8, 2023 Regarding only the appearance and physical presence of his sitters, Frank Auerbach makes pictures of the human head that defy... Read more -
InSight No. 138
Paul Nash | River and Trees November 24, 2023 Unlike so many artists who have gazed across the Seine and thought it a good idea to paint the bridges,... Read more -
InSight No. 137
Edmund de Waal | answer to an enquiry November 10, 2023 The ceramic installations of Edmund de Waal defy categorisation, operating somewhere between the earthy rigours of studio pottery and the... Read more
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InSight No. 136
R.B. Kitaj | Welcome Every Dread Delight October 27, 2023 To coincide with Piano Nobile’s recently opened exhibition R.B. Kitaj: London to Los Angeles, InSight considers one of the paintings... Read more -
InSight No. 118
Craigie Aitchison | Crucifixion with Angels February 9, 2023 Despite his Christian upbringing, Craigie Aitchison cared less for religion than he did for art. His use of Christian imagery... Read more -
InSight No.94
Craigie Aitchison | Butterflies in a Landscape, 1964 December 20, 2021 Piano Nobile is pleased to represent the Estate of Craigie Aitchison, a remarkable artist who often achieved perfection through simplicity.... Read more
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InSight No. 90
Jean Cooke | Cave Painting I, 1965 c. November 17, 2021 Sussex's chalk landscape has inspired painters and writers from Enid Bagnold and William Nicholson to the subject of this week's... Read more -
InSight No. 85
Craigie Aitchison | Baker’s Egg, 1974 October 13, 2021 A lifelong lover of ‘kitsch’, Craigie Aitchison achieved a rare synthesis of style and content in paintings that stand out... Read more