Grumpy Art Historian

Picture: Musée Jacquemart-André Last week I went to the Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris. I made a special trip to see a masterpiece by...

Leonardo Virgin of the Rocks , with dust. Picture: MS Leonardo  Virgin of the Rocks , with dust. Picture: MS I was at the Louvre la...

Tragic news from New York that the Frick is planning a massive expansion. The Frick is run by arrogant, philistine self-promoting morons ...

Picture: Guardian There's an unintentionally hilarious interview with abstract artist Sean Scully in the weekend FT ( gated link he...

Adolf Reich The Connoisseur Picture: Christie's Bendor Grosvenor has written about his recent experience at a panel on connoisseur...

Picture: Amazon Simon Green and Jane Thomas  Dumfries House: An Architectural Story   Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical M...

Picture: Wikipedia Some fashionable modern art has been sold for oodles of money this week. I was more interested to find a second hand...