Grumpy Art Historian

Picture: Guardian Art History News makes a good defence of the National Maritime Museum's bid for the Stubbs paintings that the Na...

Picture: Guardian This white elephant in central England deservedly faces closure, as Oliver Wainwright explains in this excellent arti...

Picture: Princeton University Press Martha C. Nussbaum Not for Profit: Why democracy needs the humanities Princeton: Princeton Universit...

Here's a  superb article by Judith Dobrzynski in the New York Times questioning the rush for museums to offer interactive experience...

Picture: BBC BBC reports that a tourist broke the finger off a statue in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo in Florence. They quote Mon...

Picture: Opentable Here's an excellent post by Ryan Sutton on negative restaurant reviews, taking up the claim that you should bas...

Ruisdael The Jewish Cemetery DIA Detroit's bankruptcy has occasioned an outbreak of poorly argued, ill-considered and downright ...