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Review

Not Your Average Portrait Show in New York—Gainsborough: The Fashion of Portraiture at the Frick

Thomas Gainsborough assembled a veritable army of portraits of “the great and the good” in Georgian Britain. And the new exhibition at the Frick...

MJ Rivera 5 March 2026

Women Artists

The Mirror and the Palette: 500 Years of Women’s Self Portraits

This is a review of the book The Mirror and the Palette. Rebellion, Revolution, and Resilience: Five Hundred Years of Women’s Self Portraits by...

Candy Bedworth 2 March 2026

Contemporary Art

Immersive Art to Enjoy in London—Chiharu Shiota and Yin Xiuzhen

Nestled in a cluster of brutalist buildings, the Hayward Gallery is a large exhibition space, part of the multidisciplinary Southbank Centre in...

Edoardo Cesarino 2 March 2026

Review

Disobedient — A Novel About Artemisia Gentileschi

Review of Disobedient by Elizabeth Freemantle. A novel about the early life of Baroque Italian artist Artemesia Gentileschi

Candy Bedworth 2 March 2026

Book Review. Fashioning the Crown book cover. Simon & Schuster. Fashion

The Seams of Royalty: Justine Picardie’s Fashioning the Crown

Fashioning the Crown: A Story of Power, Conflict, and Couture is Justine Picardie’s latest book. She explores all the ways haute couture and...

Errika Gerakiti 23 February 2026

Review

Dressing Up, The Women Who Influenced French Fashion

Dressing Up, The Women Who Influenced French Fashion is a 2021 book written by art historian Elizabeth L. Block. She is the Senior Editor in the...

Errika Gerakiti 20 February 2026

Review

The 80s: Photographing Britain

The 80s: Photographing Britain at Tate Britain in London was a kaleidoscopic chronicle of more or less a decade, where photography witnessed and...

Ania Kaczynska 19 February 2026

Review

Plunder and Survival: Suzanne Loebl’s Account of Nazi Art Looting

Written by Holocaust survivor Suzanne Loebl with Abigail Wilentz, Plunder and Survival (Bloomsbury, 2025) traces the Nazi looting of art across...

Javier Abel Miguel 16 February 2026

Review

The Other Side: Women, Art And Spirituality

The Other Side: A Story of Women in Art and the Spirit World, written by Jennifer Higgie, is a deep-dive into the world of extraordinary artists...

Candy Bedworth 10 February 2026

Review

Everything Is Photograph: A Life of André Kertész

André Kertész is the patron saint of amateur photography. A man as full of passion for capturing life between glass and film as he is with...

Coleman Richards 9 February 2026

Review

Art and Life in Rembrandt’s Time at the Norton Museum of Art

Thomas Kaplan and his wife, Daphne Recanati Kaplan, have amassed the world’s largest private collection of 17th-century Dutch paintings. The...

Tom Anderson 5 February 2026

Review

The Marina Abramović Method: Instructions to Reboot Your Life

Marina Abramović is a pioneer of performance art. She is known across the globe for conceptual art practices that push human endurance and...

Candy Bedworth 2 February 2026