Repo women
Aren’t you getting a little sick of the white cube? I am. I realised how sick last week after blundering…
Roving eye
Photography has many genres, even more than painting, and most photographers achieve fame by focusing on one of them. There…
A woman of genius
‘Your favourite virtue?’ ‘I don’t have any: they are all boring,’ wrote the 21-year-old Camille Claudel in a Victorian album…
Some like it hot
In the mid-6th century, legend has it, St Brendan set off from Ireland with a currach-load of monks on a…
Some like it hot
In the mid-6th century, legend has it, St Brendan set off from Ireland with a currach-load of monks on a…
Going Dutch
In debates about what should and should not be taught in art school, the subject of survival skills almost never…
Going Dutch
In debates about what should and should not be taught in art school, the subject of survival skills almost never…
Skinny dipping
For a 21st-century gallery, a Victorian collection can be an embarrassment. Tate Modern got around the problem by offloading its…
Skinny dipping
For a 21st-century gallery, a Victorian collection can be an embarrassment. Tate Modern got around the problem by offloading its…
Double vision
Artists make good critics, but do critics make good artists? It’s hard to tell, when most are too chicken to…
Double vision
Artists make good critics, but do critics make good artists? It’s hard to tell, when most are too chicken to…
Double vision
There were two Joan Eardleys, according to a new biography of the Scottish painter by Christopher Andreae. There was ‘the…
Double vision
There were two Joan Eardleys, according to a new biography of the Scottish painter by Christopher Andreae. There was ‘the…
