The big draw in the Royal Academy’s new show on American painting during the 1930s is the iconic painting “American…
Nicholas Marlowe
Nick studied Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art and History at Cambridge University. After working for thirty years in the book trade he is now a freelance writer and artist. His interests include breadmaking, touring historic battlefields, and trying to get above D4 on the flute (maybe it's time for the piccolo). He lives in Teddington, England.
How serious were the British about Modern art? When the first Post-Impressionist exhibition arrived in London in 1910, students at…
Revolutionary though the art of Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) may have been, at its core was the human figure, and portraiture…
After a rollercoaster year of budget cuts and high-profile walkouts, English National Opera’s 2016-17 season opens with this much-heralded new…
Website September 24, 2016-January 2, 2017 Main Galleries, Burlington House There have been quite a few exhibitions in the U.K….
The inspiration for this show was the National Gallery’s acquisition of a painting by Camille Corot, “the Italian Woman”, from…
Pride of place in the first room of this exhibition goes to a vast and very odd painting, “The Disruption…
In 1974 Michael Craig-Martin exhibited an ordinary glass of water on a shelf, the type you normally find in bathrooms,…
Peter Ustinov once said that if Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) were alive today, he’d be working for “Vogue.” You can see…
You get a good idea of the esteem in which Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) was held by later French painters from…
Simon McBurney has returned to the English National Opera to direct the first revival of his production of Mozart’s last…
It’s an unsettling experience, standing in front of the little pen and ink study which the Spanish artist Goya made…
Ai Weiwei is a global phenomenon. As well as being one of the most recognizable artists working today, he’s famous…
Among the highlights of Henry VIII’s library was a book called “Ruralia Commonia,” which is generally considered the world’s first…