Tag: biography

Michael Andrews (1928-95) is the least known of the School of London painters that included Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, Lucian ...

A famous portrait of the French-American artist Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) shows her outside her home in New York City, wearing ...

Consider Hans Holbein the Younger’s portrait of Henry VIII’s fourth wife, Anne of Cleves: an enigmatic look, cast from beneath ...

Chaim Soutine: Genius, Obsession and a Dramatic Life in Art, Celeste Marcus, PublicAffairs, 304pp, $34 (hb)This biography of the expressionist ...

In 1944, the first substantial monograph of the British sculptor Henry Moore was published by Lund Humphries. Produced under wartime ...

This week: the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, UK, has invited the US artist Glenn Ligon to explore its history and ...

Lewis contrasts SBF, the ascetic, with one other male character, whom he compares to “each man in crypto,” somebody who ...

The creator and artwork historian Michael Peppiatt is candid about his artwork passions: in 2015, he printed a frank memoir ...

In autumn 1959 Richard Smith (1931-2016) made his inaugural go to to America, crusing by liner from Southampton to New ...

If there have been any doubts about how the Nan Goldin bio-doc All of the Magnificence and the Bloodshed would ...