Selected stories from Medium


How To Read Paintings: Caravaggio’s Bacchus

A Baroque masterpiece about decadence and decay

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Modern Art & Japanese Woodcut Prints

From Manet to Van Gogh, the influence of Japanese ukiyo-e prints on European art

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Did Picasso Steal the Mona Lisa?

The theft of the world’s most famous painting

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The Value of a Mistruth

Maybe the real trivia is the facts we meet along the way

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The Mythical Painting That Still Puzzles Art Historians

Dare you enter this enigmatic scene?

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What this Edward Hopper Painting Means to Me

Reading Hopper’s “Two on the Aisle”

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Art Reviews

Toyin Ojih Odutola: A Countervailing Theory

Stories of Creation, Stories For Our Time in Toyin Ojih Odutola’s A Countervailing Theory

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Beyond The Weeping Muse: Dora Maar

Beyond The Weeping Muse: the images of Dora Maar

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Elizabeth Peyton: Aire and Angels

Elizabeth Peyton at the National Portrait Gallery in London

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Peter Doig’s Latest Paintings

Corrosion And Other Maladies In Peter Doig’s Latest Paintings

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Luchita Hurtado

Luchita Hurtado: I Live I Die I Will Be Reborn

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Lee Krasner

The Formidable And Innovative Lee Krasner

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Van Gogh in Britain

Vincent van Gogh and his time in Britain

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Tracey Emin: A Fortnight of Tears

Tracey Emin: A Fortnight of Tears

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Hew Locke: Here’s the Thing

Hew Locke makes art to discover things.

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Jeff Koons At The Ashmolean

Koons is a perfect art gallery exhibitionist

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Atsuko Tanaka And The Performance Of Light

Atsuko Tanaka was a pioneering Japanese artist

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