Grumpy Art Historian

Picture: The Onion 'Struggling Museum Now Allowing Patrons to Touch Paintings', reported  The Onion   back in 2009. The Met...

Picture: Wikipedia Christie's have introduced the maddest auction house fee yet. They now propose an  extra 2%  seller's premiu...

Picture: Amazon Daniel Drezner  The System Worked: How the world stopped another great depression   Oxford University Press 2014 £19.99 ...

Picture: National Gallery I've just become a member of the National Gallery. Some months ago the National Gallery abolished exhibit...

Picture: Amazon Michel Pastoureau  Green: The history of a color  Translated by Jody Gladding, Princeton University Press 2014 £24.95 ...

George Nelson & Henry Wright Tomorrow's House: A complete guide for the home-builder Simon & Schuster 1945 I picked up this...

Picture: Metropolitan Museum of Art The most exciting upcoming exhibition this season is Bartholomeus Spranger: Splendor and Eroticism ...