The spare dry lines of Millet's 1856 etching of 'The Gleaners' make this print even more affecting than the famous painting in the Musée d'Orsay. As if the image itself has been gleaned from the margins of art history.

Cupid Victorious, or the grim truth about a Caravaggio, a short Substack essay about painting and morality. open.substack.com/pub/jpstonar...

Absolutely all of James Joyce's Ulysses on a single wall.

Jane Austen's Arcadia, and why she knew nothing about art. Latest On Art, on #Substack open.substack.com/pub/jpstonar...

This is really superb, the culmination of a year-long series of conversations that could not have been more engaging, more provoking, more enlightening. James Wood and Jonathan Rée's Conversations in Philosophy, on Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse. @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...

This absolutely glorious photo of painter Yasuo Kuniyoshi in his 14th Street studio, NYC, 1940 www.si.edu/object/yasuo...

Stupidity is a greatly underrated subject, it would make an excellent subject for a PhD. Here is a piece on the most stupid artist of the nineteenth century, the ridiculous Mr Nollekens (at least in the eyes of his biographer, J T Smith). open.substack.com/pub/jpstonar...

Grateful to anyone wanting to take a look at this On Art Substack post on the excellent and timely film 'Colossal Wreck'. For Substack, you have to enter your email, but it's all free (unless your pockets are deep). I try and post every Thursday. open.substack.com/pub/jpstonar...

The Greatest Essay on Art Ever Written open.substack.com/pub/jpstonar...

‘Freud knew that the family was the ultimate ghost story, a tendency reflected in the narratives that have become attached to ghost sightings, which often concern disputed inheritances, dynastic continuity or betrayed love.’ Jon Day on the unheimlich www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

‘Carus’s “Nine Letters on Landscape Painting” shows him shaking off Friedrich’s influence, with all its moonlight and mountain mists, in favour of a more scientific, Goethean concept of art.’ @johnpaulstonard.com on the German painter and scientist. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

‘For Carus, “Erdlebenbildkunst” (“Earth-life painting”) was a matter of representing the interconnected whole of nature, which might be indicated in the smallest detail.’ @johnpaulstonard.com on the German painter and friend of Caspar David Friedrich. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

‘The term “landscape painting” (𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘪) became a bugbear for Carl Gustav Carus: “There is something artisan-like about it that revolts my whole being.”’ @johnpaulstonard.com on the German painter: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

‘Carus made copies of paintings by Friedrich, or sought out the locations he had painted, producing works that are so close to the originals that they were often mistaken for them. When Friedrich fell out of favour, so did Carus.’ @johnpaulstonard.com on the painter. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I’m not sure I share John-Paul’s hatred of Cezanne’s Les Grandes Baigneuses; but having caught the Cezanne exhibition at the Musée Granet in Aix just before it closed earlier this month, I would trade it for almost any other picture on show there. 1/2

Weary of how amazing and excellent art is, all the time, everywhere? I wrote about hating a painting, and found it liberating. open.substack.com/pub/jpstonar...

Feed: "The Art Newspaper - International art news and events" By: John-Paul Stonard on Friday, October 17, 2025

The remarkable story of a great modern painting, and an introduction to the great Oskar Schlemmer. Latest but one on #Substack. History Up and Down #art #painting #germany open.substack.com/pub/jpstonar...

Reminder of why I write for the @lrb.co.uk, subscribe to the @economist.com, and have never been to Hay @hayfestival.bsky.social (Economist, 31st May, 'Bagehot: The Rise of Middle-Class Consciousness')

On the first accurate images of the moon, by the great Jan van Eyck. open.substack.com/pub/jpstonar...

This seems to have struck a chord. What is success in art? open.substack.com/pub/jpstonar...

Words like 'fascism' are never really helpful, except to fascists, and comparisons with the 1930s only go so far. But lest we forget.... www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/03/28/t...

Latest in the Art Newspaper. www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/03/28/t...

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