The death of London born painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, son of an Italian political refugee and force behind the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, received a significant write-up in 1888.
Genius ‘cannot go out of fashion’ - what we said about Vincent van Gogh in 1947.
A collection of paintings by the popular artist LS Lowry was well received in 1956.
In 1961, the Manchester Guardian published an interview with Marc Chagall, the influential Russian-French artist.
Having been flattened by the Luftwaffe in the second world war, a rebuilt Coventry faced a new ‘menace’ in the 1960s: graffiti artists.
‘There can be no doubt at all of his intelligence, and the work itself makes a tremendous impact’ - a review of pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, whose art was displayed at the Tate in 1969.
A bloodied bandage, a jar of Vaseline, and a rusted knife featured in a piece about artists prostituting themselves, by performance artist Genesis P-Orridge.
Not everyone likes the Turner Prize, the question is why? In 1986, the Guardian looked at the controversy surrounding the new prize introduced to recognise British artists.
After his death in 1989, the embalmed body of surrealist artist Slavador Dalí was buried in Spain.
Edvard Munch’s masterpiece, The Scream, estimated to be worth many millions, was safely returned following its theft in Norway in 1994.
Work by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei that saw 100m handpainted porcelain ‘seeds’ scattered on the floor of the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall was reviewed by the Guardian in 2010.
