It is here! After six years of planning: the great Raphael exhibition that I’ve co-curated with Tom Henry and David Ekserdjian has opened at the National Gallery in London. It presents a comprehensive overview of Raphael’s entire career and charts his creativity across media and art forms, beyond drawing and painting to architecture and to…
Raphael’s Portrait of Lorenzo de’Medici The Metabunker summarizes the problems of attribution surrounding the Raphael portrait sold at Christie’s in 2007
Den her blev lang, men det var fantastisk at genforenes over tegneserier med Andreas Gregersen og bare tonser derudaf. Vi valgte på indskydelse Daniel Clowes’ mesterlige tegneserienovelle “Caricature” fra 1995, da den forekom os righolding på tanker, præcision og betydning. Det holdt stik — vi snakkede i godt to timer om de 16 sider, der…
I participated in the venerable In Our Time with Melwyn Bragg in an episode on the Sistine Chapel and Michelangelo, alongside Catherine Fletcher from Manchester Metropolitan University and Sarah Vowles of the British Museum. It was a lot of fun and, I hope, an informative discussion. The brodcast was yesterday, but you can download the…