Gordon Parks: Part One at Alison Jacques Gallery
Gordon Parks’s photographs are large and colourful, capturing the pastel-hued dresses, the bright red cars…
Author Alice Payne
Van Gogh and Britain at the Tate
It’s an impressive feat to bring together 50 of Van Gogh’s works from private and…
Félix Vallotton: Painter of Disquiet
‘The very singular Vallotton’, as his editor called him, is surprisingly unknown in the UK,…
Review: Don McCullin at Tate Britain
If you’re not familiar with Sir Don McCullin’s name, as the UK’s leading war photographer…
Pierre Bonnard: The Colour of Memory at Tate Modern
With Tate Modern’s universally-acclaimed retrospective on Bonnard entering its closing weeks, Alice Payne tells the story of the…
Rosenbaum’s Rescue
In October 1943, seven and a half thousand Jews fled to Sweden from Nazi-occupied Denmark,…
Courtauld Impressionists: From Manet to Cézanne at The National Gallery
Walking through the National Gallery’s superb exhibition Courtauld Impressionists: From Manet to Cézanne, it’s hard…
Tony Vaccaro: From Shadow to Light
The BBC named him the ‘greatest combat photographer of WWII’, but Tony Vaccaro’s powerful record…
Monet and Architecture at The National Gallery
Architecture might seem an unexpected premise through which to explore the work of Claude Monet…
Impressionists in London
Before we go any further, we ought to get something out of the way: this…
Modigliani at Tate Modern
If you’re looking for an exhibition to see over the Easter weekend, you could do…
God’s Own Country
Francis Lee’s brilliant portrayal of life on an English farm delivers a deeply-moving story, confronting…