Laura Gascoigne

The genius of Yoko Ono

24 February 2024 9:00 am

Embarrassment of riches: South Asian Miniature Painting, at MK Gallery, reviewed

11 November 2023 9:00 am

In 1633, British merchants travelling east were issued with a royal command from Charles I: ‘As the king has considered…

The importance of lesbianism to British modernism: Double Weave, at Ditchling Museum, reviewed

4 November 2023 9:00 am

The name of Ditchling used to be synonymous with Eric Gill, but since he was outed as an abuser of…

How Philip Guston became a hero to a new generation of figurative painters

21 October 2023 9:00 am

Why do painters represent things? There was a time when the answers seemed obvious. Art glorified power, earthly and divine,…

Proof that Rubens really was a champion of the female sex: Rubens & Women, at the Dulwich Picture Gallery reviewed

14 October 2023 9:00 am

‘She is a princess endowed with all the virtues of sex; long experience has taught her how to govern these…

Marina Abramovic’s show is only of interest to diehard fans

7 October 2023 9:00 am

‘Do women have to be naked to get into the Met Museum?’ More than 30 years after the Guerrilla Girls…

You don’t have to be ‘woke’ to be troubled by the Fitzwilliam Museum’s links to slavery

23 September 2023 9:00 am

What happens when a museum outlives the worldview of its founder? For publicly funded museums with collections amassed during the…

Surreal, pacy and fun: Christian Marclay’s Doors, at White Cube, reviewed

16 September 2023 9:00 am

Sliding doors may change your life, but there’s no mystery in their transparency. A hinged wooden door is another matter;…

Lyrical and dreamlike: A World of Private Mystery – British Neo-Romantics, at the Fry Art Gallery, reviewed

9 September 2023 9:00 am

‘My daughter’s moving to Saffron Walden, away from all this,’ said the railway man at Stratford station, gesturing at the…

At the Science Gallery I argued with a robot about love and Rilke

26 August 2023 9:00 am

A little-known fact about the Fairlight Computer Musical Instrument, the first sampling synthesiser, introduced in 1979, is that it incorporated…

An extraordinary woman: The Art of Lucy Kemp-Welch, at Russell-Cotes Art Gallery, reviewed

19 August 2023 9:00 am

In March 1913 two horse painters met at the Lyceum Club to discuss the establishment of a Society of Animal…

Lumpy, bulgy, human: Threads, at Arnolfini Bristol, reviewed

12 August 2023 9:00 am

Trophy office blocks designed as landmarks are not welcoming to humans; their glass and steel reception areas feel more suited…

The wonders of 18th-century automata

29 July 2023 9:00 am

At the Paris International Exhibition of 1867, Mark Twain was mesmerised by a life-sized silver swan with ‘a living grace…