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Adrian Hamilton

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The Independent’s former comment editor, Adrian Hamilton writes a weekly column largely on international affairs with particular focus on the Middle East, Iran and foreign policy issues. Before joining the paper he was deputy editor of the Observer newspaper.

David Hockney with model Maudie James and photographer Peter Schlesinger in an image from the National Portrait Gallery’s forthcoming ‘Vogue 100: A Century of Style’ exhibition
News

British Vogue showcases amazing photography since its founding in 1916

Bernie Leser
Obituaries

Bernie Leser: Shoe salesman and much-loved executive at Condé Nast

Go for gold: The Hermitage
Europe

St Petersburg: a sparkling city for all seasons

Obituaries

Rodney Milnes: harsh opera critic who was warm in person

Tom Read: a sense of public duty
Obituaries

Tom Read: a tribute to the radio producer behind BBC's documentaries

New diva of drama: Kristin Scott Thomas as Electra
Features

Why are theatre directors messing with the classics?

Branch out: ‘In the Orchard’ (1891) by Edmund C Tarbell
Features

How Monet and Degas influenced a generation of American artists

Features

Exhibition of Scottish art shows the characteristics of the artists

Garnett: he gave up a life of revelry and threw himself into business
Obituaries

Andy Garnett: Leading figure of the 1950s London set who later helped

Landscape with rustic art gallery: Durslade Farm, Bruton, converted by Hauser & Wirth
Features

Global art dealers Hauser & Wirth opening a gallery in sleepy West

Landscape with rustic art gallery: Durslade Farm, Bruton, converted by Hauser & Wirth
Features

Global art dealers Hauser & Wirth opening a gallery in sleepy West

Family members of passengers aboard Malaysia Airlines MH370 shout slogans as they march toward the Malaysian embassy in Beijing
Comment

MH370: Relatives of passengers have been treated appallingly

Miller in 1964, shortly after being named editor of 'Vogue'
Obituaries

Beatrix Miller: 'Vogue' editor whose own talents, and her nurturing of

Obituaries

Beatrix Miller: 'Vogue' editor whose own talents, and her nurturing of

Miller in 1964, shortly after being named editor of 'Vogue'
A woman looks at a photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson on the opening day of the retrospective dedicated to the French photographer
Features

Henri Cartier-Bresson: Greatest photographer of the 20th Century

Richard Hamilton's 'Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?' (1956) (Estate of Richard Hamilton)
Features

Richard Hamilton: The most influential artist of his generation?

David Hockney’s ‘Self Portrait’, lithograph (1954)
Features

David Hockney: From Gandhi to gay love

A row of ever smaller Cactus plants
Reviews

Actually, there is a point to Martin Creed

A row of ever smaller Cactus plants
Reviews

Actually, there is a point to Martin Creed

Warhol in 1976; Lynch in 2002; Burroughs in 1965
Features

Andy Warhol, William Burroughs and David Lynch: Obsessive

Little Sun (1969) Collection of IFA, Stuttgart
Reviews

Hannah Höch, Whitechapel Gallery, art review

‘Tom and Jerry at the Exhibition of Pictures at the Royal Academy’
Features

The making of modern Britain: the Georgian era saw the middle class

Simon Hoggart, of 'The Guardian', at a press conference in 2004
Obituaries

Simon Hoggart: Columnist who delighted readers for decades with a wit

La Poupée, 1933-1936, on show in the Surrealism and the object exhibition in Paris
Features

Surrealist sculpture: How Salvador Dali, Giorgio de Chirico and

'Battery Shelled’ by Wyndham Lewis in Truth and Memory
Features

Best of 2014: Visual art preview

Bruce Munro’s ‘Tepees’ installation (part of ‘Winter Light’) at Waddesdon Manor
Features

2013 - the year in review: The best visual arts of the year

'Colour Her Gone' (1962) by Pauline Boty
Features

Pauline Boty: The marginalised artist of British Pop Art is enjoying a

'Battery Shelled’ by Wyndham Lewis in Truth and Memory
Features

Best of 2014: Visual art preview

Bruce Munro’s ‘Tepees’ installation (part of ‘Winter Light’) at Waddesdon Manor
Features

2013 - the year in review: The best visual arts of the year

'Colour Her Gone' (1962) by Pauline Boty
Features

Pauline Boty: The marginalised artist of British Pop Art is enjoying a

Julia Parkinson, In Conversation, 2012
Features

Art stars of tomorrow: The latest edition of the show where Damien

Features

Art stars of tomorrow: The latest edition of the show where Damien

Julia Parkinson, In Conversation, 2012
Snow Storm – steam-boat off a Harbour’s Mouth by Turner
News

The master of the high seas: Turner's genius for painting marine

Jake and Dinos Chapman's Come and See at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery in London
Features

The shocking truth: Why Jake and Dinos Chapman's tactics are wearing

‘Floating Island’ by Makiko Kudo
Reviews

Body Language at the Saatchi Gallery: A mixed body of work

Red alert: ‘History of the VKP(b) poster’ by Aleksandr Rodchenko who adopted the collectivist creed of the Communist Party
Features

The Socialist Network: Art turning left...

Red alert: ‘History of the VKP(b) poster’ by Aleksandr Rodchenko who adopted the collectivist creed of the Communist Party
Features

The Socialist Network: Art turning left...

Spencer’s paintings above the altar and on the side walls at Sandham Chapel in Hampshire
Features

Making tea is heaven in the hell of war: Stanley Spencer's soldiers

‘Saying Farewell at Hsun-yang’ by Qiu Ying
Reviews

Unscrolling the masterpieces that were made in China at the V&A

'Seated Male, holding left knee, left profile', by CJ Natoire
Reviews

Art review: The Male Nude, The Wallace Collection, London

Whistler's 'Battersea Reach from Lindsey Houses'
Features

Exhibition of the week: An American in London: Whistler and the

‘The Last of Old Westminster’ (18
Reviews

The river runs deep: Whistler in London

Fire at Full Moon, 1933, by Paul Klee
Features

Exhibition of the week: The EY Exhibition: Paul Klee, Tate Modern,

'Park near Lu'
Features

Paul Klee: Triumph of a 'degenerate'

Sugimura Jihei, mid-1680s
Features

The largest show of Japanese erotic artworks ever seen

Features

Exhibition of the week: Australia, Royal Academy of Arts, London W1

The wizardry of Oz: Charles Meere’s ‘Australian Beach Pattern’ (1940
Reviews

Australia’s day in the sun, at the Royal Academy of Arts

In The Days That Remain by Tom Phillips, 2012
Features

Exhibition of the week: Tom Phillips, Flowers Gallery, London W1

Features

Exhibition of the week: Tom Phillips, Flowers Gallery, London W1

In The Days That Remain by Tom Phillips, 2012
Crazy in the head: Yumiko Utsu’s ‘Octopus Portrait’ (2009
Reviews

A riveting return to Victorian values

Paolozz liked to mix his media and his imagery
Features

Exhibition of the week: Eduardo Paolozzi: Collaging Culture, Pallant

Eduardo Paolozzi, Real Gold, 1949, Printed papers on paper, Tate, Presented by the artist 1995
Features

Eduardo Paolozzi: Living in a materialist world

Judd's 'boxes' and wall-mounted cubes draw you into spaces where light and the play of shadow and depth become a texture in themselves
Features

Exhibition of the week: Donald Judd, David Zwirner Gallery, London W1

Judd's 'boxes' and wall-mounted cubes draw you into spaces where light and the play of shadow and depth become a texture in themselves
Features

Exhibition of the week: Donald Judd, David Zwirner Gallery, London W1

Donald Judd in 1982, with his work ‘Untitled’ (19
Features

Space odyssey: Donald Judd - space, light and sculptures that take on

Inverleith House pays homage to West with an exhibition of his collaborations with artists including Anselm Reyle and Sarah Lucas
Features

Exhibition of the week: Mostly West: Franz West and Artistic

All in good taste: ‘Platonischer Mond’ (2002) by Franz West
Reviews

Please do touch: Franz West brings mischief to Inverleith House,

The Scottish National Gallery's exhibition concentrates on the works of the last dozen years, when Doig moved to Trinidad and encountered a whole new range of colours, culture and texture
Features

Exhibition of the week: Peter Doig: No Foreign Lands, Scottish

All adrift: ‘Figures in a Red Boat’ (20
Reviews

Treasured island: Peter Doig at the Scottish National Gallery

Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech Ring, 1943, Laura Knight
Features

Exhibition of the week: Laura Knight: Portraits, National Portrait

Laura Knight's 'Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breechring'
Features

Human touch: Laura Knight's National Portrait Gallery show is a timely

Featured works include the Self-Portrait of Suffering
Features

Exhibition of week: Ibrahim el-Salahi: a Visionary Modernist

Pictures of innocence: 'Female Tree'
Features

Ibrahim el-Salahi: Out of Africa

Diego Rivera’s Dance in Tehuantepec
Features

The Mex Factor: how Mexico's cultural revolution was inspired by the

Features

Exhibition of the week: Vermeer and Music: the Art of Love and Leisure

Features

Exhibition of the week: Vermeer and Music: the Art of Love and Leisure

Vermeer’s ‘The Guitar Player’ (c167
Features

Vermeer hits the high notes at the National Gallery

The Void, 1918, by Paul Nash
Features

Exhibition of the week: Nash, Nevinson, Spencer, Gertler, Carrington,

David Bomberg’s ‘In the Hold’ (1913
Features

Brushed aside by the chaos of conflict: A Crisis of Brilliance at the

Jessica Jackson Hutchins
Features

Paper view: Turning a 2D sheet of parchment into a 3D delight

Jessica Jackson Hutchins
Features

Paper view: Turning a 2D sheet of parchment into a 3D delight

News

Exhibition of the week: Propaganda: Power and Persuasion, British

Patrick Caulfield, Café Interior: Afternoon 1973 Private collection
Reviews

Art review: Patrick Caulfield, Tate Britain, London

Marc Chagall's ‘Introduction to the Jewish Theatre’ (19
Features

Marc Chagall's true colours are shining through

Jacob van Ruisdael's Evening Landscape
Features

Exhibition of the week: Rembrandt and His Contemporaries: Paintings

Features

Bath Goes Dutch: Ravishing Rembrandts at the Holburne Museum

Cold War: US Government health poster
Reviews

Big Brother is watching you: Propaganda at The British Library

L.S. Lowry The Fever Van 1935
Features

LS Lowry and his legacy: The matchstick man is back in vogue at last

‘Multi-Saint’ (20
News

Heavenly Bodies: Michael Landy's artistic marriage made in heaven...

Souzou showcases work from 46 artists living in or attending social welfare establishments across Japan
Features

Exhibition of the Week: Souzou: Outsider Art from Japan, Wellcome

New Order: British Art Today/Gaiety Is the Most Outstanding Feature of the Soviet Union, Saatchi Gallery, London SW3 (saatchi-gallery.co.uk) to 9 June
Reviews

New Order: British Art Today, at the Saatchi Gallery: this new order

Mum’s the word: Takako Shibata’s ‘Mother’ (1996-2
Reviews

Beautiful minds: Outsider art at the Wellcome Collection

First impressions: Rachel Whiteread with one of the exhibits in her new show, Detached
Features

Rachel Whiteread: A lesson in how to think inside the box

The Rijksmuseum from the canal
Features

Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum: Dutch art's high cathedral ushers in a new

Craigie Aitchison’s ‘Boat at Sunset’ (1990
Reviews

He comes in colours: Craigie Aitchison at the Waddington Custot

Pope Francis and Xi Jinping
Asia

Super Power: The Pope and the Chinese President - two men who are

Powerful picture: If Not, Not, 1975
Features

Exhibitions of the week: R B Kitaj: Obsessions, various venues

Craigie Aitchison’s ‘Boat at Sunset’ (1990
Reviews

He comes in colours: Craigie Aitchison at the Waddington Custot

Pope Francis and Xi Jinping
Asia

Super Power: The Pope and the Chinese President - two men who are

Powerful picture: If Not, Not, 1975
Features

Exhibitions of the week: R B Kitaj: Obsessions, various venues

Faithful stand on St Peter's square to watch the first mass by Pope Francis on a giant screen on March 14, 2013 at the Vatican.
Comment

Pope Francis may do great things, but radical change won't be one of

R B Kitaj’s ‘The Wedding’ (1989
Features

R B Kitaj retrospective comes to London a decade after he fled Britain

Turner-Prize winning artist Simon Starling (right) stands in front of his new film installation Phantom Ride commissioned by Tate Britain which shows images of artworks that been shown at the Tate in the past.
Reviews

Art review: Tate Britain's self-reflexive new commission 'Phantom

Features

Exhibition of the week: Barocci: Brilliance and Grace, National

U.S. President Barack Obama (R) talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as they walk along the Colonnade of the White House on March 5, 2012 in Washington, DC.
Comment

World View: Be realistic about Obama’s trip to Israel – he’s

Federico Barocci’s ‘Entombment of Christ’ (1579
Features

Simply divine: Barocci at the National Gallery

Comment

A shift in the Vatican? If you believe the Pope is retiring, you’ll

Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase
Features

The French Connection: Marcel Duchamp's American legacy is explored in

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