Conservation vs. Modernism: The Venetian Vexation
Venice – a city which is inescapably connected to the modern world, but could never truly belong. During the nineteenth century, Venice’s...
The Life of An Artist: An Interview with Martin Yeoman
Martin Yeoman (https://www.martinyeomanartist.com) is a British painter, draughtsman, etcher and sculptor who has works in many...
Family Pictures: My Parents and ‘GENERATIONS’
GENERATIONS Installation View, Showing: Hurvin Anderson, Is It Okay to be Black? (Image: Carlotta Pierleoni) I think I should start this...
‘The Mountains are Quiet and the Days Grow Long’: The Steady Hand of Ch’en Shu
Welcome to my second column! This week we are moving across to China to look at the life and works of the artist Ch’en Shu (1660-1736)....
The End of May
And there we have it: the reign of May is at an end. On Friday morning the Prime Minister stepped up to a podium set before the door of...
May’s Days are Numbered & Monet Goes for Stacks
To begin with a bit of art news for a change, at Sotheby’s New York this week one of Claude Monet’s series of haystack paintings was sold...
Self-Care, Self-Delusion, Self-Awareness: How well-being became a global concept and what it means
With exams approaching and various deadlines creeping up on us, think back to how many times in the last week you thought of a day off...