Michael Andrews

The greatest decade for British painting since Turner and Constable? The 1970s

5 July 2025 9:00 am

Slowly the canvas was unfurled across the concrete floor of a warehouse on an industrial estate in Suffolk. On and…

The extraordinary paintings of Craigie Aitchison

23 November 2019 9:00 am

One of the most extraordinary paintings in the exhibition of work by Craigie Aitchison at Piano Nobile (96–129 Portland Road,…

‘Melanie and Me Swimming’, 1978–9, by Michael Andrews

Magnificent paintings – oddly curated: All Too Human reviewed

10 March 2018 9:00 am

In the mid-1940s, Frank Auerbach remarked, the arbiters of taste had decided what was going to happen in British art:…

‘Storm on Yarmouth Beach’, 1831, by Cotman

Jumble of taste

4 January 2014 9:00 am

Andrew Lambirth on the Sainsbury Centre’s latest exhibition