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The New Statesman 2025

marks the 250th anniversary

of the birth of Joseph Malold William Turner,

widely celebrated as Britain's greatest landscape painter.

Yet beyond the familiar image of the painter of light, Turner was a complex figure whose radical art often baffled his contemporaries.

I'm Tom Gatti, and this is Culture from the New Statesman.

I'm joined in the studio by the New Statesman's art critic Michael Proger

to explore why Turner still matters

and how themes in his work like the power of nature,

the impact of technology and national identity

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