Book review — art criticism

Into the woods: for the Oslo exhibition, Knausgaard chose to fill a whole section with Munch’s paintings of trees. ‘Pine Forest’ (1891–92)

The Struggle and The Scream: is Karl Ove Knausgaard Munch’s doppelgänger?

20 April 2019 9:00 am

Norway doesn’t have a world-class philosopher (Kierkegaard was Danish). Karl Ove Knausgaard declared at the end of his previous book…

What narrative can be teased out of Gustave Caillebotte’s ‘The Bridge of Europe’?

The art critic who loved to provoke the Establishment

14 May 2016 9:00 am

Richard Dorment doesn’t do whimsy. Or Stanley Spencer. He’s a fan of Cy Twombly and Brice Marden, Gilbert and George…