Art & Education

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All art is for children – and great art can make children of us all

Great art makes children of us all (Ben Street)
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Kelly Grovier, ‘A New Way of Seeing’ (TLS, 2019)

Review of 'A New Way of Seeing' by Kelly Grovier for the Times Literary Supplement
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Joshua Sperling, ‘A Writer of our Time: The Life and Work of John Berger’ (TLS, 2019)

Review of 'A Writer of our Time: The Life and Work of John Berger' by Joshua Sperling
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Jonathan Jones, ‘Sensations: The Story of British Art from Hogarth to Banksy’ (TLS, 2019)

Review of Jonathan Jones, 'Sensations: The Story of British Art from Hogarth to Banksy' (TLS, 2019)
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Isabelle Graw, ‘The Love of Painting: Genealogy of a Success Medium’ (Art Review, 2018)

Review of Isabelle Graw, ‘The Love of Painting: Genealogy of a Success Medium’ (Art Review, 2018)
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Talking about Talking about Painting (Freelands Foundation, 2018)

A talk for Freelands Foundation, London
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Wolf Burchard, ‘The Sovereign Artist: Charles Le Brun and the Image of Louis XIV’ (Art Quarterly, 2017)

Wolf Burchard, 'The Sovereign Artist: Charles Le Brun and the Image of Louis XIV' (Art Quarterly, 2017)
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Elizabeth Prettejohn, ‘Modern Painters, Old Masters’ (Art Quarterly, 2017)

Review of Elizabeth Prettejohn, 'Modern Painters, Old Masters' (Art Quarterly, 2017)
A 3D-printed version of ‘Vulcan’s Forge’ (c. 1630) by Velazquez, designed for blind and partially sighted visitors. Photo: Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid

‘Audio Guide’: a talk for the temporarily blind (Freelands Foundation, 2017)

A performance / talk for Freelands Foundation, London
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Future Greats: Katie Schwab (Art Review, 2016)

On Katie Schwab, for Art Review's Future Greats issue (2016)
The Sense of Sight (1744–7), Philip Mercier, Yale Center for British Art (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

What Art Historians Can Learn from Museum Education (Apollo Magazine, 2014)

Should we worry that art history as taught in secondary and higher education is weighted towards interpretation and contextualisation?