Tag Archives: The Burlington Magazine

Hype: New Reviews

comics and cartooning, commentary and criticism, pictorial artsBy Matthias Wivel 28 April 2017

Over at The Comics Journal I’ve just had my rather long, unfocused… er, discursive review of Michael Tisserand’s major new biography Krazy: George Herriman, A Life in Black and White published. Herriman’s Krazy Kat is widely, and for pretty good reasons, regarded as one of the greatest comics of all time, and really should also…

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…