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Perhaps the most significant event this week, was the passing of the great art critic John Berger, whose hugely influential book and tv...

Happy New Year to all my readers. 2017 promises to be an exciting year, but I’ll talk more about that in Wednesday’s post. For now,...

Happy New Year to all my readers. 2017 promises to be an exciting year, but I’ll talk more about that in Wednesday’s post. For now,...

This week’s Week in Review post is very much a mixed bag of journals, blog posts, exhibitions, books, CFPs, and prizes. First up, is the...

This week’s Week in Review post is very much a mixed bag of journals, blog posts, exhibitions, books, CFPs, and prizes. First up, is the...

It’s been a few weeks since my last Week in Review, so this week is a bit of a bumper post of exhibitions, conferences, talks, articles,...

It’s been a few weeks since my last Week in Review, so this week is a bit of a bumper post of exhibitions, conferences, talks, articles,...

I was greatly saddened last week to hear of the passing of Mary D. Sheriff, the internationally celebrated art historian. Her obit on...

I was greatly saddened last week to hear of the passing of Mary D. Sheriff, the internationally celebrated art historian. Her obit on...

My object of the week is this albumen portrait of Sarah Forbes Bonetta, which was used to illustrate the National Portrait Gallery’s...

My object of the week is this albumen portrait of Sarah Forbes Bonetta, which was used to illustrate the National Portrait Gallery’s...

This week’s object of the week isn’t mine per se, but Zara Anishanslin’s. In her recently published book, Portrait of a Woman in Silk:...

This week’s object of the week isn’t mine per se, but Zara Anishanslin’s. In her recently published book, Portrait of a Woman in Silk:...

My object of the week is an image from Mary Banning’s The Fungi of Maryland, a lush volume with 175 hand-painted watercolors accompanied...

My object of the week is an image from Mary Banning’s The Fungi of Maryland, a lush volume with 175 hand-painted watercolors accompanied...

My object of the week is this book of spirit drawings by the medium Anna Mary Howitt. Now held at Cambridge University Library Special...

My object of the week is this book of spirit drawings by the medium Anna Mary Howitt. Now held at Cambridge University Library Special...

My pick of the week is the forthcoming exhibition at Edinburgh Museum A Wise Man Knows His Craft: Henry Taylor Wyse and Holyrood Pottery,...

My pick of the week is the forthcoming exhibition at Edinburgh Museum A Wise Man Knows His Craft: Henry Taylor Wyse and Holyrood Pottery,...

My object of the week is this newly-acquired patchwork made c. 1804 by Birmingham writer Catherine Hutton, now in the collections of...