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Herbert Lachmayer and Alfred Weidinger on Gustav Klimt

To coincide with Tate Liverpool’s exhibition ‘Gustav Klimt: Painting, Design and Modern Life in Vienna 1900’, we bring together a cultural historian and a Klimt specialist to debate how the man who remains one of the world’s most popular modern artists took voyeurism to new heights.

Gustav Klimt . Detail of Altar of Dionysus, painted for the Burgtheater, Vienna, 1886 - 1888

Gustav Klimt
Detail of Altar of Dionysus, painted for the Burgtheater, Vienna, 1886 - 1888
© Georg Soulek/Burgtheater
Oil on marble
c. 160 x 1200cm

Claire Daigle on Cy Twombly

Cy Twombly, Untitled VII from Bacchus Series, 2005

Coinciding with Cy Twombly’s 80th birthday, Tate Modern is staging the first retrospective of the American artist’s work for twenty years. Claire Daigle charts his time since the 1950s.

Christopher Miles on John Baldessari

John Baldessari, Beethoven's Trumpet (With Ear), Opus 127, 2007

The American artist John Baldessari has influenced several generations of younger artists, and has, since the 1960s, consistently renegotiated his own working practice. Christopher Miles pays him a visit.