Encountering the Unwelcome
Travelling back from Belgium this summer I was inadvertently caught up in the rush of returning holidaymakers, all making for…
The Visible Collection
The Leicester German Expressionist Collection, New Walk Museum and Art Gallery. When it comes to rare collections of modernist art,…
The Cathedral of Soissons
Amiens, Rouen, Riems, Bourges, Chartres… the celebrated colossi of Gothic ecclesiastical architecture in France, those peaks rising from the…
Vanessa Can Stand Alone
Vanessa Bell (1879-1961), Dulwich Picture Gallery, until 4 June 2017 ‘Life apart from human beings was almost completely visual for…
Making Haste Slowly
The Intimate World of Josef Sudek, Jeu de Paume, Paris, 7 June – 25 September 2016 and The…
Breathing the World’s Air
Messages from a Lost World, Stefan Zweig, translated by Will Stone, Pushkin Press, 2016, 224pp, (hardback) The Storyteller: Tales…
The Sleepwalkers by Will Stone
Europe is a wasteland in Will Stone’s third collection The Sleepwalkers. The poet portrays the continent as ‘What’s left of…
From a Hotel Lobby
The Hotel Years, Joseph Roth, translated by Michael Hofmann, Granta, 2016, 288pp, £16.99 (hardback) For Joseph Roth, the…
Visions of Genius
Hieronymus Bosch – Visions of Genius, Het Noord-Brabants Museum, s’ Hertogenbosch, until 8 May 2016 Five hundred years on from…
Twilight of the Idols
Inside the head of Bruno Schulz, by Maxim Biller translated by Anthea Bell, Pushkin Press, 2015, 128 pp. £10 Summer…
Beneath the Crust
Goya – The Portraits, National Gallery, London, until 10 January 2016 To most, the mention of the name Francisco Goya…
Hell on Earth
Goya: The Witches and Old Women Album The Courtauld Gallery 26 February – 25 May 2015 Anyone fortunate enough…
Festung Europa Hitler’s Atlantic Wall in Photographs
The Atlantic Wall – Hitler’s Coastal Fortress from the Arctic to the Pyrenees, Ianthe Ruthven with a foreword by…
Free Radical
Egon Schiele – The Radical Nude The Courtauld Gallery, London 23 October 2014 – 18 January 2015 Vienna has…
The Modern Eye, Edvard Munch exhibition at Tate Modern. By Will Stone
Will Stone, The Modern Eye The Modern Eye, Edvard Munch exhibition at Tate Modern. By Will Stone ‘Without anxiety…
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