Grumpy Art Historian

The Art Institute of Chicago has acquired a collection of contemporary art that they describe as the 'largest' in their history (...

I like curators, especially good ones. So I should be delighted to discover that there's a Campaign for Good Curatorship . The campai...

I love Italy, really I do. Great food, great art, great landscape. Transport is fantastic; well-maintained roads (well, better than UK or U...

Picture: National Gallery Sunday was 'pose day'. It's part of museum week, a Twitter initiative that encourages people...

Pleasure and Piety: The art of Joachim Wtewael   Centraal Museum Utrecht to 25 May (then to Washington DC and Houston) These two sm...

Sven Beckert Empire of Cotton: A new history of global capitalism Allen Lane 2014 £30 The title of this outstanding book should be re...

James Millingen Some Remarks on the state of learning and the fine-arts in Great Britain J. Rodwell 1831 London is still blessed wi...