Events
As we move towards the start of 2025, I end this year in Kyoto, taking part in a Symposium which seeks to place the reception of French modern art in Kyoto in the wider framework of research which looks at its reception in other capital cities, namely London, Paris and Berlin. This two day event, during December 21 and 22, 2024, is organised by the Japan-France Art Society. My slot concerns London. Other guest speakers are Richard Shiff and Karen Lang.
Recent Articles
- Mabel Pryde’s Progress, review of the exhibition ‘Prydie’:The life and art of Mabel Pryde Nicholson, Grange Gallery, Rottingdean, Times literary Supplement, 9 August 2024
- ‘Model Daughter’, review of Naked Portrait: A Memoir of Lucian Freud, by Rosie Boyt, Literary Review, July 2024
- The World in a Corner of England’, review of Alexandra Harris’s The Rising Down: Lives in a Sussex Landscape, BBC History Magazine, February 2024
- Direct Lines, review of Impressionists on Paper: Degas to Toulouse Lautrec, Apollo, February 2024
- Lived in Beauty, review of Laura Freeman’s Ways of Life: Jim Ede and the Kettle’s Yard Artists, Times Literary Supplement, December 20-29, 2023
- Glory, turmoil and freedom, review of Postmodern: New Art in Britain 1945-1995, Barbican, London, Times Literary Supplement, 15 April 2022
- Bull with a Paintbrush, review of John Richardson’s fourth volume of his A Life of Picasso: The Minotaur Years 1933–1943, Literary Review, April 2022
- Candid Canvas, review of Tanya Harrod’s Humankind: Ruskin Spear – Class, Culture and Art in the 20th-Centry Britain, Literary Review, December 2021-January 2022
- Pushing south, review of Bridget Riley, Working Drawings, Times Literary Supplement,3 December 2021
- Painting, Living, party going, review of Nina Hamnett, Charleston, Sussex, Times Literary Supplement, 6 August 2021
- Michael Ayrton, forgotten giant, Diary page reappraisal, Apollo, June 2021
- Aesthete of Gordon Square, review of Clive Bell and the Making of Modernism, Literary Review, April 2021
- Catalyst of the English avant-garde, review of Alfred Wallis Rediscovered, Kettle’s Yard, Times Literary Supplement, 20 November 2020
- Magnetic Fields, article on Mark Hearld’s house, World of Interiors, October 1920
- Lines of continuity , review of Bridget Riley: the Complete Prints 1962-2020, Apollo, October 2020
- Planter’s Punch, review of John Nash: Artist and Countryman, in Apollo, February 2020
- Book of the Week. Review of Self-Portrait, by Celia Paul, in Guardian, 23 November 2019.
- Disruptive interventions, review of Cut and Paste: 400 Years of Collage in TLS, 13 September2019
- Crystal symbol of a new faith, review of Bauhaus Goes West, by Alan Powers, in Times Literary Supplement, 5 April 2019
- Fine Lines, review of Christina Rossetti: Poetry in Art, edited by Susan Owens and Nicholas Tromans, in Literary Review, December 2018
- Permanent Marker, review of Joseph Albers: Life and Work, by Charles Darwent, in Apollo, December 2018
- Inheritors, progenitors, Samuel Courtauld’s astonishing collection, review of Courtauld Impressionists, exhibition at National Gallery, London, Times Literary Supplement, 7 Decmber 2018
- Weathering the storm, review of Fighting On All Fronts: John Rothenstein in the Art World , by Adrian Clark, Apollo, October 2018
- The eyes have it, review of two exhibitions, Edward Bawden at Dulwich Picture Gallery and Enid Marx at House of Illustration, Times Literary Supplement, August 24 and 31 2018.
- Review of Lynda Nead’s The Tiger in the Smoke: Art and Culture in Post-War Britain, Guardian, 6 January 2018
- Period Portraits, review of Modigliani, Tate Modern, in Apollo, February 2018
- Firing the Imagination, review of Leonard Rosoman by Tanya Harrod, in Literary Review, August 2017
- Victor Pasmore: Between Risk and Equilibrium, catalogue essay for Victor Pasmore exhibition, held Marlborough Gallery, London, 21 June to 29 July, 2017.
- Realism bites back, review of British Realism in the 1920s and 1930s, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, The Guardian, 30 June 2017
- Holy Ground, Recognising the spirituality of the capital, review of Visualising a Sacred City: London, art and religion, edited by Ben Quash, Aaron Rosen, Chloe Reddaway, Times Literary Supplement, 9 June 2017
- Review of David Jones: Engraver, Soldier, Poet, Painter, by Thomas Dilworth, Apollo, June 2017
- Beauty, emptiness, melancholia, review of Leonard Woolf’s ‘Growing’, Times Literary Supplement, 14 October 2016
- Why the most civilised of men felt like a fraud, review of James Stourton’s biography of Kenneth Clark, Standpoint, November 2016
- A Very British Modernist, review of the Paul Nash retrospective at Tate Britain, Standpoint, November 2016
- Legacy of a Sir-Realist, review of James King’s biography of Roland Penrose, Standpoint, July/August 2016
- Being private and going public, and the example of the Royal Collection, Editorial, The Burlington Magazine, August 2016
- Kunstmuseum Basel, New Building, Editorial. The Burlington Magazine, July 2016
- The Promise of Tate Modern, Editorial, The Burlington Magazine, June 2016
- Photography and Museums, Editorial, The Burlington Magazine, April 2016
- British Art and the Paul Mellon Centre, Editorial, The Burlington Magazine, January 2016
- Neil MacGregor and the British Museum, Editorial, The Burlington Magazine, December 2015
- Six of the Best Portraits of Writers, The Times, 19 July 2014
- Who Shot Virginia Woolf?, Daily Telegraph, 9 July 2014
- Kasimir Malevich: the man who liberated painting, The Guardian, 4 July 2014
- The Self-Portrait: a Cultural History, The Guardian, 27 March 2014
- How Van Gogh’s Sunflowers came into bloom, The Guardian, 17 January 2014
- Breakfast with Lucian Freud: A Portrait of the Artist by Geordie Grieg, The Guardian, 18 December 2013
- Barbara Hepworth and the Hospital Drawings, The Burlington Magazine, January 2013
- A portrait for modern times – the painter as thinker, review of Alex Danchev’s biography of Cézanne, The Independent, 27 October 2012
- Monument to a family fortune and a heroine’s erased life, review of Jenny Uglow’s The Pinecone, The Independent, 6 October 2012
- Contingency – Notes from the Field, The Art Bulletin, September, 2012
- John Cecil Stephenson: Pioneer of Modernism, The Burlington Magazine, May 2012
