Daily Archives: 24 January 2015

Charlie Hebdo at The Comics Journal

comics and cartooning, commentary and criticism, current affairs, hype & linkageBy Matthias Wivel 24 January 2015

I recently published a review of the latest, 7 million print run-issue of Charlie Hebdo over at The Comics Journal. I have a second article, which delves further into the contentious and complicated issues surrounding the massacre, the cartoons and journalism of the magazine, and a bit of everything else, so stay tuned.

Moroni in the Burlington Magazine

commentary and criticism, hype & linkage, pictorial artsBy Matthias Wivel 24 January 2015

This month’s issue of The Burlington Magazine includes my review of the Royal Academy’s exhibition of the work of sixteenth-century Italian painter Giovanni Battista Moroni, curated by Simone Facchinetti and Arturo Galansino. It really is an excellent show of a now overlooked painter and I cannot recommend it enough. It closes this Sunday , so…