Richard Dadd: A Much-Respected Murderer
Feted as a Royal Academy prodigy, then locked away for stabbing his own father to…
Author Rosalind Ormiston
M.C.Escher: The Exhibition
At Somerset House in London, a landmark show traces how a shy Dutch graphic artist,…
Anish Kapoor at the Hayward Gallery
Rosalind Ormiston finds a jaw-dropping spectacular at the Hayward Gallery, as Anish Kapoor returns home in…
Zurbarán: The Art of Divine Light
Rosalind Ormiston visits Zurbarán at the National Gallery: a near-fifty-painting retrospective that reveals the full…
BRUSK in Bruges
Rosalind Ormiston visits Bruges’ ambitious new fine arts museum — a landmark building that arrives…
Michaelina Wautier at the RA
At the Royal Academy of Arts currently, a revelatory exhibition restores the often overlooked 17th c…
Pompeii: Below the Clouds
With the release of Gianfranco Rosi’s hauntingly beautiful documentary, Rosalind Ormiston is absorbed by this meditation on life…
In Bloom: How Plants Changed Our World
At the Ashmolean Museum, Rosalind Ormiston explores ‘In Bloom: How Plants Changed Our World’, a…
Catherine Opie: To Be Seen
On now at the National Portrait Gallery, ‘Catherine Opie: To Be Seen’ offers a powerful…
Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Over 2,000 years ago the Roman poet Ovid wrote Metamorphoses, a sweeping narrative of what…
Seurat and the Sea
A rare exhibition at The Courtauld Gallery turns the spotlight on the coastal paintings of…
Vanbrugh 300: Celebrating the Original ‘Starchitect’
As Britain marks the three-hundredth anniversary of Sir John Vanbrugh’s death, Rosalind Ormiston visits Vanbrugh:…