Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart, the country's wealthiest person, has demanded that Australia's National Gallery remove a portrait that displeases her. It has declined to do so and, moreover, the attempt has given Vincent Namatjira's painting wo...
The first official portrait of King Charles III to be painted since his coronation has been unveiled. The canvas, by Jonathan Yeo, depicts His Majesty in full military regalia, shrouded in a fine mist of his enemies' blood, but for his immaculate hea...
A very long time ago in my late teens, I wrote a book with the rather unimaginative title ‘The Magic Forest’ which was (quite rightly) never published. Although derivative (I was inspired by Walter de la Mare’s strange and wonderful novel ‘Th...
Born in 1907, Magdalena Frida Kahlo grew up in Mexico City in a blue house/Casa Azul built by her father. Father Guillermo Kahlo was a German-Jewish photographer and mother, Matilde Calderón, indigenous and Catho...
Knight, The Fishing Fleet, 1900 Boston Museum & Art Gallery.Knight, The Boys Newlyn Cornwall, 1909, Johannesburg Art Gallery.Barbara Morden’s book dealt with the British artist born to the impoverished Johnson family.
A Bluestocking was a mid C18th intellectual woman with strong scholarly or literary interests. A group was founded to discuss the arts, started by two high society ladies in Britain: heiress Elizabeth Montagu (1718–1800) and intellectual&nb...
In Aryo Toh Djojo's new exhibition Unseen Realities, the Los Angeles-based artist invites us to bear witness to extraordinary phenomena and unknown (unknowable) experiences. The show runs until March 30 at Stems Gallery in Paris. "Unseen Realities,...