Grumpy Art Historian

Picture: Wikipedia I went to Madrid last weekend to see the Velazquez show, which I'll review separately (short version: fabulous...

Picture: National Gallery of Art Saddened to hear that Hasan Niyazi of 3PipeProblem , doyen of art history bloggers, has died at the a...

I wanted to like this  exhibition . I'm glad the National Gallery avoided a formulaic blockbuster ('Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka...

Picture: Artslife.com Exciting new discovery of Andrea Mantegna drawing is reported by  Artslife  (in Italian - English summary on  Ar...

Picture: Amazon This might be the most ambitious book ever written about art. Botton and Armstrong argue that art is valuable as a tool...

Picture: Meet in Birmingham I think of Birmingham's Barber Institute as my alma mater. I grew up in Birmingham, and although the Ci...

Picture: Winchester Cathedral Yesterday I went to Tate Britain for the new exhibition  Art Under Attack: Histories of British Iconocl...