Art & Ideas

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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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Thinking Giovanni Bellini (Nicholas Hall, 2020)

An article on thinking about Giovanni Bellini.
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Deepfakes (Art Review, 2019)

Excavation, forgeries, and the haunted past
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Detective Work (Art Review, 2019)

Ben Street recalls the time a leading art historian called in the police to test the truth of art history
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‘A History of Pink’ (OOF, 2019)

A history of the colour pink in art history for OOF magazine
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‘The Power of the Self-Portrait’ (Art Quarterly, 2019)

Discussion of self portraiture by Zanele Muholi, William Blake, Francesca Woodman, Paul Gauguin for Art Quarterly magazine
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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)