Claudia Massie

Dogs for children

11 February 2017 9:00 am

Henry, our springer spaniel, has died, suddenly and prematurely. With the passing weeks, we are becoming accustomed to the strange…

Love unflinching: every child should know it

Dogs for children

9 February 2017 3:00 pm

Henry, our springer spaniel, has died, suddenly and prematurely. With the passing weeks, we are becoming accustomed to the strange…

Skye

6 August 2016 9:00 am

Glamour. It’s Marcello Mastroianni drinking negronis on the Via Veneto; it’s Audrey Hepburn, George Clooney, Sinatra on the Vegas Strip…

Sudden beauty (crowd not pictured): the Quiraing

Skye

4 August 2016 1:00 pm

Glamour. It’s Marcello Mastroianni drinking negronis on the Via Veneto; it’s Audrey Hepburn, George Clooney, Sinatra on the Vegas Strip…

First impressions

23 July 2016 9:00 am

The last boat I saw in the galleries on the Mound was a canoe that the Scottish painter Jock McFadyen…

‘Apple Blossoms’, 1873, by Charles-François Daubigny

First impressions

21 July 2016 1:00 pm

The last boat I saw in the galleries on the Mound was a canoe that the Scottish painter Jock McFadyen…

Marisol with some of her sculptures, New York, 1958

First Lady of Pop Art

19 May 2016 1:00 pm

In 1961 the Venezuelan-American sculptor Marisol Escobar made a startling appearance at the New York artists’ group known as the…

Marisol with some of her sculptures, New York, 1958

First Lady of Pop Art

19 May 2016 1:00 pm

In 1961 the Venezuelan-American sculptor Marisol Escobar made a startling appearance at the New York artists’ group known as the…

Strange fruit: Bosch mixes scripture and folklore

The delights of Hieronymus Bosch

21 April 2016 1:00 pm

If you hope to inspire an appreciation of Renaissance art in your children, look to Hieronymus Bosch. Ideally, your children…

Brute force: St Peter’s internal elevation

Dying of the light

25 February 2016 3:00 pm

Finding St Peter’s is not straightforward. I approach the wrong way, driving up a pot-holed farm track between a golf…

‘Silent Treatment’ by Andrew Cranston

Internal affairs

18 February 2016 3:00 pm

The ten vignettes that punctuate the white walls of the Ingleby Gallery invite us to step into the many-chambered mind…

About strange lands and people: ‘Midsummer Eve Bonfire’, after c.1917, by Nikolai Astrup

Magnetic north

28 January 2016 3:00 pm

‘Edvard Munch, I cannot abide,’ wrote Nikolai Astrup in a letter to his friend Arne Giverholt. ‘Everything that he does…

Approachable abstraction

19 November 2015 3:00 pm

Fifteen million pounds and a hefty slice of architectural vision have transformed the Whitworth from a fusty Victorian art temple…

‘Untitled’, 1963, by Gillian Ayres

Approachable abstraction

19 November 2015 3:00 pm

Fifteen million pounds and a hefty slice of architectural vision have transformed the Whitworth from a fusty Victorian art temple…

‘Untitled’, 1963, by Gillian Ayres

Approachable abstraction

19 November 2015 3:00 pm

Fifteen million pounds and a hefty slice of architectural vision have transformed the Whitworth from a fusty Victorian art temple…

The romanticism of fell and water

The Lake District

29 October 2015 3:00 pm

Cumberland and Westmorland Wrestling is the best thing in the Lake District. I lived near Wigton, just north of the…

Hanging offence

29 October 2015 3:00 pm

Modern Scottish Men, a new exhibition celebrating the achievements of male artists in the 20th century, opens next month in…

Look homeward, angel: Glasgow Necropolis

Glasgow

30 July 2015 1:00 pm

A wet walk in a Glaswegian graveyard might not be your idea of fun, but then you might not have…

Le Perche: every farmyard looks like a painting

Normandy

14 May 2015 1:00 pm

I am compiling a list of the best black puddings. It began in Spain when I encountered my first morcilla…

Møns Klint as painted by Claudia Massie

Møn

16 April 2015 1:00 pm

The sky over the island of Møn, which is at the bottom right of Denmark, was cobalt and the whitewashed…

Great Scots

17 July 2014 1:00 pm

Since spring this year, art venues across Scotland have been dedicating themselves to a gigantic project called Generation. Involving more…

Great Scots

17 July 2014 1:00 pm

Since spring this year, art venues across Scotland have been dedicating themselves to a gigantic project called Generation. Involving more…

Champion of the people

18 April 2013 1:00 pm

Welsh miners, Basque child refugees (above), Tyneside shipbuilders, Paul Robeson: In the Shadow of Tyranny at the Scottish National Portrait…

Champion of the people

18 April 2013 1:00 pm

Welsh miners, Basque child refugees (above), Tyneside shipbuilders, Paul Robeson: In the Shadow of Tyranny at the Scottish National Portrait…