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Marina Vaizey

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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

Neil MacGregor: Living with the Gods review - focuses of belief

Sunday, 23 September 2018 Read more...

Yuval Noah Harari: 21 Lessons for the 21st Century review - a sceptic's optimism?

Sunday, 26 August 2018 Read more...

Grayson Perry: Rites of Passage, Channnel 4 review - making meaning in death

Friday, 24 August 2018 Read more...

Roger Scruton: Music as an Art review - how to listen?

Sunday, 19 August 2018 Read more...

Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott: Swan Song review - Capote redux

Sunday, 17 June 2018 Read more...

Frank Gardner: Ultimatum review - topical terrorism

Sunday, 03 June 2018 Read more...

Big Sky, Big Dreams, Big Art: Made in the USA, BBC Four review - unexpected facts aplenty

Thursday, 24 May 2018 Read more...

William Trevor: Last Stories review - final intimations

Sunday, 20 May 2018 Read more...

Christie Watson: The Language of Kindness review - tender memoir, impassioned indignation

Sunday, 06 May 2018 Read more...

Rodin and the Art of Ancient Greece, British Museum review - magnificence of form across the millennia

Friday, 04 May 2018 Read more...

John Gray: Seven Types of Atheism review - to believe, or not to believe

Sunday, 29 April 2018 Read more...

Monet and Architecture, National Gallery review - a revelation in paint

Tuesday, 17 April 2018 Read more...

The Queen's Green Planet, ITV review - right royal arboreals

Tuesday, 17 April 2018 Read more...

Barbara Ehrenreich: Natural Causes review - counterintuitive wisdom on the big issues

Sunday, 15 April 2018 Read more...

America's Cool Modernism, Ashmolean Museum review - faces of the new city

Thursday, 29 March 2018 Read more...

Big Cats About the House, BBC Two review - irresistible feline-human bonding

Friday, 23 March 2018 Read more...

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