In Bloom: How Plants Changed Our World
At the Ashmolean Museum, Rosalind Ormiston explores ‘In Bloom: How Plants Changed Our World’, a…
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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…
Tracey Emin: A Second Life
In what may fast become the must-see exhibition of the year, Rosalind Ormiston explores the…
Rivals, Originals, Masters: Turner & Constable on Screen
In this thoughtful review, art writer Rosalind Ormiston explores Turner & Constable, the latest Exhibition…
Radical Harmony: Neo-Impressionism at The National Gallery
Rosalind Ormiston explores a landmark exhibition that brings masterpieces of Neo-Impressionism from the Kröller-Müller Museum…
The Lemon in the Half-Light: Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
What if Cambridge’s most enduring legacy is not its Nobel laureates, nor the centuries of…
A Prophet with a Palette: George F. Watts
Before art was branded, filtered, or farmed for clicks, one man insisted it was a…
Hiroshige: Artist of the Open Road
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) is a masterful Japanese artist. Born in Edo (now Tokyo) into a…
Giuseppe Penone: Thoughts in the Roots
The artist Guiseppe Penone, born in 1947 in the village of Garessio, in northern Italy,…
Grayson Perry’s Delusions of Grandeur
Grayson Perry’s latest show reinterprets the Wallace Collection. The Arb’s art writer, Rosalind Ormiston, went…