tue 17/12/2024

Marina Vaizey

Marina Vaizey's picture
Bio
Marina Vaizey was art critic for the Financial Times, then the Sunday Times, edited the Art Quarterly, has been a judge for the Turner Prize, and a trustee of several museums; books include 100 Masterpieces, The Artist as Photographer and Great Women Collectors. She's currently a freelance art critic and lecturer. This drawing of Marina as a character from Jane Austen is 40 years old.

Articles By Marina Vaizey

Pioneering Women, Oxford Ceramics Gallery online review - domestic pleasures

Read more...

Hold Still, National Portrait Gallery review - snapshots from lockdown

Read more...

Extinction: The Facts, BBC One review - David Attenborough tells a devastating story

Read more...

William Feaver: The Lives of Lucian Freud: Fame 1968-2011 review - mesmerising, exhaustive and obsessively detailed

Read more...

George IV: Art & Spectacle, The Queen's Gallery review - all is aglitter

Read more...

Vincent van Gogh: the reader and the writer

Read more...

Bears About the House, BBC Two review - uphill struggle to save hunted animals

Read more...

Tutankhamun in Colour, BBC Four review - amazing enhanced images bring fabled Pharaoh to life

Read more...

The World's Greatest Paintings, Channel 5 review - enthusiastic presenter but no dazzling revelations

Read more...

John Grisham: Camino Winds review - morality tale with a light touch

Read more...

Caroline Maclean: Circles and Squares review - adventurous art, progressive living and a good gossip

Read more...

Grayson's Art Club, Channel 4 review - too many clichés and platitudes?

Read more...

Don Winslow: Broken review - a staggering crash course in the possibilities of crime

Read more...

Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema, BBC Four review - the undying allure of the spying game

Read more...

Sam Bourne: To Kill a Man review – the woman who fought back

Read more...

Taking Control: The Dominic Cummings Story, BBC Two review - disruptive political maverick eludes pigeonholing

Read more...

Pages

latest in today

Help to give theartsdesk a future!

It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.

It followed some...

Blu-ray: Three Wishes for Cinderella

Three Wishes for Cinderella (Tři oříšky pro Popelku) is one of...

Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake, New Adventures, Sadler...

How do you refresh a masterpiece? Bringing back his first and still greatest hit, Swan Lake,...

Albums of the Year 2024: Kenny Barron - Beyond This Place

Kenny Barron’s Beyond This Place is glorious. Whereas I’ve found some of the more talked...

Music Reissues Weekly: Vanilla Fudge - Where Is My Mind The...

Vanilla Fudge could provoke a strong reaction. Writing about them in 1982, Tom Hibbert – then best-known for his contributions to Smash Hits...

Bogart: Life Comes in Flashes review - a Hollywood legend,...

It might be a push to call this documentary a feminist slant on...

Sujo review - cartels through another lens

It’s not often we hear barely a single gunshot in a movie set amid Mexican drug cartels, but that may be the way it is for people who actually...

Albums of the Year 2024: Meemo Comma - Decimation of I

I don’t really want to talk about this year. Genuinely.

It’s been so horrific on the macro scale with deranged Fascism and the effects of...

Queer review - Daniel Craig meets William Burroughs

Judging by a Sunday Times interview last weekend, Daniel Craig now enjoys wearing brilliantly-coloured sweaters and extraordinary...