Photography
Best in show
Martin Gayford recommends the exhibitions to see — and to avoid — over the coming year
From cave painting to Maggi Hambling: the best Christmas art books
It’s been a memorably productive year for art books (I have published a couple myself), but certain volumes stand out.…
Artificial life
Ruskin dismissed Julia Margaret Cameron’s photographs as untrue. But, argues Martin Gayford, the same could be said of any picture
Unreliable evidence
I hadn’t really thought much about pixels before, despite spending a large portion of my day looking at them. After…
Coming up for air
Jenny McCartney talks to the celebrated photojournalist about war, guilt and Aylan
Kultural icon
The almond eyes that rise towards their outer edges. The cheekbones that curve down to the corners of those upholstered…
Thank heaven for little girls
A.S. Byatt explores the dark alternatives to innocence in Lewis Carroll’s deeply disturbing looking-glass world
Elephant in the room
In the centre of the new exhibition Sculpture Victorious at Tate Britain there is a huge white elephant. The beast…
Ways of seeing
Perhaps the news that Radio 5 live will be the only BBC station (under the new broadcasting rights agreements) to…
Strokes of genius
The art on show over the coming year demonstrates that we still live in an age of mighty painters, says Martin Gayford
All things bleak and beautiful
It is difficult to fault this remarkable volume. The publishers have created a book of quality with stunning illustrations and…
Cosmic sublime
Mark Mason on the images that make grown men cry
Dear Mary
Q. A scholarly book of great importance to me appears to have gone missing from my library. It was heavily…
New ways of seeing
Andrew Lambirth talks to Justin Partyka, whose photographs show Constable Country in an unexpected light
Images of war
Catalyst: Contemporary Art and War at the Imperial War Museum North (until 23 February) is alone worth a trip to…
Reading a face
Do you think you can tell things about writers from the way they look in a painting or photograph? A…
