20 Portman Square, Somerset House: The Buildings of The Courtauld. An Interview with Anthony Robins
Illustration by Tessa Carr Walking into Somerset House for each visit to the library, for each lecture or class, I am constantly grateful...
The Great Spectacle
Thomas Rowlandson and Augustus Charles Pugin, ‘Exhibition Room, Somerset House,’ 1808. Engraving. (Image: Wikimedia commons) If we want...
Review: SURGE, the 13th East Wing Biennial
Hiroki Ishikawa, Sediment of a Day, 2018. (Image courtesy of EWB) For its thirteenth edition, SURGE, the East Wing Biennial has turned...
The Wallace Collection: An Interview with the 9th Marquess of Hertford
Illustration by Nia Thomas The beloved Wallace Collection boasts a rich and exhilarating heritage, one that is intrinsically linked to...
OBJECT No. 2
Giorgio Vasari, The Lives of the Artists, 1568 Edition. We look at objects, write about them, talk about them, consume them. They are the...
‘History’, ‘Unscripted’ Historical Traces and the Fiction of Ownership in the work of Sven Augustijn
The starting-point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is, and is ‘knowing thyself’ as a product of the...
Victorian Giants: The Birth of Art Photography at the National Portrait Gallery
The Evening Sun (Iphigenia), c 1860, by Oscar Rejlander The Victorians lived in a world flooded with new optical instruments and...