Laura Gascoigne

‘Statue (Double Check by Seward Johnson), New York, 11 September 2001’, 2001, by Jeff Mermelstein

Repo women

6 July 2017 1:00 pm

Aren’t you getting a little sick of the white cube? I am. I realised how sick last week after blundering…

‘Broadway’, 1954, by Marvin E. Newman

Roving eye

20 May 2017 9:00 am

Photography has many genres, even more than painting, and most photographers achieve fame by focusing on one of them. There…

Left: ‘Étude pour la tête d’Hamadryade’, 1895-1908; right: ‘La Valse’, 1889-1895

A woman of genius

8 April 2017 9:00 am

‘Your favourite virtue?’ ‘I don’t have any: they are all boring,’ wrote the 21-year-old Camille Claudel in a Victorian album…

Some like it hot

11 February 2017 9:00 am

In the mid-6th century, legend has it, St Brendan set off from Ireland with a currach-load of monks on a…

‘Explosive eruption of Vesuvius viewed from Naples, October 1822’ by George Poulett Scrope Frontispiece from Considerations on Volcanoes, 1825

Some like it hot

9 February 2017 3:00 pm

In the mid-6th century, legend has it, St Brendan set off from Ireland with a currach-load of monks on a…

Going Dutch

29 October 2016 9:00 am

In debates about what should and should not be taught in art school, the subject of survival skills almost never…

Going Dutch

27 October 2016 2:00 pm

In debates about what should and should not be taught in art school, the subject of survival skills almost never…

Skinny dipping

24 September 2016 9:00 am

For a 21st-century gallery, a Victorian collection can be an embarrassment. Tate Modern got around the problem by offloading its…

‘Carcase of an Ox’, by the circle of Rembrandt

Skinny dipping

22 September 2016 1:00 pm

For a 21st-century gallery, a Victorian collection can be an embarrassment. Tate Modern got around the problem by offloading its…

Double vision

27 February 2014 3:00 pm

Artists make good critics, but do critics make good artists? It’s hard to tell, when most are too chicken to…

Double vision

27 February 2014 3:00 pm

Artists make good critics, but do critics make good artists? It’s hard to tell, when most are too chicken to…

Double vision

2 May 2013 1:00 pm

There were two Joan Eardleys, according to a new biography of the Scottish painter by Christopher Andreae. There was ‘the…

Double vision

2 May 2013 1:00 pm

There were two Joan Eardleys, according to a new biography of the Scottish painter by Christopher Andreae. There was ‘the…