Grumpy Art Historian
Curmudgeonly criticism, mostly about art.
Tuesday, 25 August 2015
Punching Pictures
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A child has fallen against a picture on exhibition in Taiwan, but there's something fishy about the whole incident. Bendor Grosveno...
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Sunday, 9 August 2015
'Drawn from the Antique' at the Soane Museum
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Picture: Soane Drawn from the Antique: Artists & the classical ideal Soane Museum, London to 26 September Artists were sponta...
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Monday, 27 July 2015
Museums! Stop engaging youth, start engaging middle aged men!
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'Ritratto di nonno con nipote' by Domenico Ghirlandaio Picture: Web Gallery of Art Data prove that museums are letting me do...
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Thursday, 23 July 2015
'Donations' in lieu of tax: a stupid way to fund the arts
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Picture: University of Cambridge Margaret Thatcher's archives were recently transferred to the nation in lieu of tax, under a sch...
Sunday, 19 July 2015
The Old Master Market: Dead, or merely resting?
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Picture: Wikipedia Bendor Grosvenor has rightly debunked a number of myths around the supposed collapse of the old master market. I ...
Auction results: comparing old and new
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The divergence between contemporary and old master pictures is often noted in abstract terms, and the highest priced contemporary works evi...
Saturday, 18 July 2015
Listening to the pictures: Sound in museums
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Picture: Wikipedia This picture has haunted me since I first saw it some years ago in Utrecht's Catherijneconvent. It's a tiny ...
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