Laura Freeman

Pebbles

22 July 2023 9:00 am

P-p-pick up a pebble. Feel its weight in your palm. Roll it over under your thumb. Any good? Not sure?…

Can we know an artist by their house?

3 June 2023 9:00 am

Can we know an artist by their house, asks Laura Freeman

We’ve reached standing ovation saturation

2 July 2022 9:00 am

‘And now the end is here / And so I face the final curtain…’ You said it, Frank. The lights…

How to mend (almost) anything

28 May 2022 9:00 am

‘Sides to middle’, that’s the cry. When your foot goes through the flat sheet in the night, there’s only one…

Disney's rococo roots

23 April 2022 9:00 am

A clever, original exhibition at the Wallace Collection has Laura Freeman twirling her way through the West End

The cult of the extortionate ‘English’ kitchen

9 April 2022 9:00 am

When did they get so expensive?

The art of the Christmas card

18 December 2021 9:00 am

It’s the thin end of the wedge, the slippery slope, the beginning of the end of a civilised Christmas. It…

Why do we kiss under mistletoe?

11 December 2021 9:00 am

Give us a snog. Pucker up at the Christmas party. Kiss me quick at the Nativity play. Will you be…

The art of seizing the moment in photographic portraiture

13 November 2021 9:00 am

A Tatler photographer once told me that the secret to taking a good photo was the three Ts: tum, tits,…

The joy of a cluttered museum

16 October 2021 9:00 am

The joy of a cluttered museum

Absurd and amusing, solemn and scholarly: Charles Jencks's Cosmic House reviewed

2 October 2021 9:00 am

An editor once told me: always look at the loos. It was remarkable, she said, how many grand cultural projets,…

The daring young man who gave his name to the leotard

4 September 2021 9:00 am

Jules Léotard was blessed in his name. It might have been quite different had he been called, say, Jules Droupé.…

The National Trust has lost the language of architecture

14 August 2021 9:00 am

Press officers, breathe easy. This is not another column attacking the National Trust. Actually, I tell a lie. It is.…

Glorious: Bernardo Bellotto at the National Gallery reviewed

14 August 2021 9:00 am

What is the National Gallery playing at? Why, in this summer of stop-start tropical storms, is the NG making visitors…

Rich and strange: Eileen Agar at Whitechapel Gallery reviewed

31 July 2021 9:00 am

Heads turn, strangers gawp, matrons tut or look in envy. A man doffs his bowler hat knowing when he is…

The art of government: what politicians’ paintings say about them

19 June 2021 9:00 am

What politicians’ paintings say about them

What does your wedding reading say about you?

5 June 2021 9:00 am

The pitfalls of choosing a wedding reading

Bricks and pieces: the blight of London’s fake facades

8 May 2021 9:00 am

The problem with London’s fake facades

The bizarre art of Scottie Wilson deserves to be better known

8 May 2021 9:00 am

On eBay I have an alert set for ‘Scottie Wilson’. Nine times out of ten, it’s a diamanté Scottie dog…

Why should art have ever been considered a male preserve?

1 May 2021 9:00 am

Sixty years ago, women were still excluded from the art history canon, says Laura Freeman

The first-century saint who went viral

3 April 2021 9:00 am

Laura Freeman considers how artists have depicted one of the strangest and most touching of the Stations of the Cross

The stifling cult of self-care

16 January 2021 9:00 am

The stifling cult of self-care

Paint in the bloodstream: The Death of Francis Bacon, by Max Porter, reviewed

9 January 2021 9:00 am

Francis Bacon once told the art critic Richard Cork: ‘I certainly hope I’ll go on till I drop dead.’ Max…

Every page of this astonishingly beautiful ode to the citrus is a treat

19 December 2020 9:00 am

Laura Freeman is transported by J.C. Volkamer’s astonishingly beautiful ode to the citrus

Will our churches ever reopen?

7 November 2020 9:00 am

Will churches ever fully reopen?