David Ross

Why is the National Portrait Gallery’s collection so poor?

3 May 2025 9:00 am

The recent announcement that the National Portrait Gallery has purchased two works by Sonia Boyce and Hew Locke for its…

The summer I dwelt in marble halls

20 January 2024 9:00 am

Gill Johnson recalls the glorious months she once spent in the ‘gilded labyrinth’ of a Venetian palazzo, employed as an English tutor to an aristocratic Italian family