Grumpy Art Historian

Picture: Worcester Art Museum The Worcester Art Museum's new director has re-hung the collection and branded the display ' Rema...

Picture: Kids in Museums There is happily no debate about the merits of introducing children to art galleries. But there ought to be mo...

Picture: MS Very excited to see this new Raphael drawing Ajax and Cassandra  at the British Museum recently, just accepted by the gover...

Picture: MS Drost's Bathsheba is lonely. She used to be flanked by two of the Louvre's great Rembrandts: his version of  Bathsh...

Picture: Amazon Rachel Cohen  Bernard Berenson: A life in the picture trade   Yale University Press 2013, £18.99  This short study...

Picture:Amazon Fernando Marías  El Greco Life and Work: A new history   Thames & Hudson 2013, £60 El Greco's life is fascin...

Picture: Telegraph Felix Salmon has written a superb post on how to write about art auctions . His Four Rules are: It isn't a m...