Frank Auerbach's 60-year love letter to London

Tate Britain, London
Every day, the artist arrives at his studio to paint a new vision of the turbulent city that has been his muse for six decades and counting. A brave new show reveals the delights and difficulties of being AuerbachTrees that are black forks holding reservoirs of redness are scattered in a gloom punctuated by bright, white globes. This is Primrose Hill, in north London, as it looked to the painter Frank Auerbach in the winter of 1974-75. Yet it cannot actually have looked like