The Venice Accademia: is this the smallest great gallery in the world?
The Accademia is one of the smallest of the world’s great art galleries, and picture for picture perhaps the most…
A wooden UFO lands in Yorkshire Sculpture Park
The New York-based sculptor Ursula von Rydingsvard comes from a long line of Polish and Ukrainian peasant farmers. She was…
How Richard Wilson made Wales beautiful
‘I recollect nothing so much as a solemn — bright — warm — fresh landscape by Wilson, which swims in…
Alexander Pope, inventor of celebrity
‘The Picture of the Prime Minister hangs above the Chimney of his own Closet, but I have seen that of…
Modernism's dreams – and nightmares – at the Venice Architectural Biennale
Roderick Conway Morris is edified and entertained by the Venice Architectural Biennale
The tubular joys of Fernand Léger
In 1914 Fernand Léger gave a lecture about modern art. By then recognised as a leading Cubist artist, he had…
What Emperor Augustus left us
Roderick Conway Morris on the influence and legacy of Augustus
Turner's seafaring ways — and his blazingly competitive art
Turner’s contemporaries regarded him primarily as a marine painter. This perception extended to his persona, with many who met him…
How Manet was influenced by the artists of the Renaissance
Roderick Conway Morris on the French master’s love affair with the art and artists of the Renaissance
