The best art and architecture of 2024

Photo: Bill Jacobson Studio, New York. Courtesy Dia Art Foundation

Our critics’ highlights include magnificently rough portraits by the late Frank Auerbach, Caravaggio’s final painting and a 1930s silo reborn as a museum of modern art

Adrian Searle’s best art shows of 2024

Beryl Cook/Tom of Finland
Studio Voltaire, London

This unlikely pairing of self-taught Plymouth-based national treasure, who painted her everyday surroundings, and a Finnish illustrator of muscle-bound hunks bulging in their biker leathers, was a collision made in some sort of heaven. Cook accompanied her pneumatic subjects to the boozer and down the caff, dancing and carousing on girls’ nights out, while Tom of Finland cruised a fantasy world of man-on-man horseplay and wild alfresco sex. Blimey.

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Published: 9th January 2025

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