mon 21/04/2025

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

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

Read more...

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

Read more...

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

Read more...

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

Read more...

Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott: Swan Song review - Capote redux

Read more...

Frank Gardner: Ultimatum review - topical terrorism

Read more...

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

Read more...

William Trevor: Last Stories review - final intimations

Read more...

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

Read more...

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

Read more...

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

Read more...

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

Read more...

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

Read more...

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

Read more...

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

Read more...

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

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...

Bach St John Passion, Academy of Ancient Music, Cummings, Ba...

In a programme note for the St John Passion at the Barbican, the Academy of Ancient Music’s chief executive called their Easter performances of...

Album: Viagra Boys - Viagr Aboys

Sweden’s most gloriously unhinged export is back, and Viagr Aboys might just be Viagra Boys at their most fun, feral and fully realised....

Music Reissues Weekly: 1001 Est Crémazie

It would have been hard to pick up a copy of the album credited to and titled 1001 Est Crémazie in...

MacMillan St John Passion, Boylan, National Symphony Orchest...

Never make your mind up too soon about any large-scale work by a genius. Back in 2010, I had my doubts about James MacMillan’s first Passion,...

Neil Young: Coastal review - the old campaigner gets back on...

As well as generating a ceaseless stream of albums, whether live, studio or culled from his copious archives, Neil Young has also amassed a fairly...

First Person: St John's College choral conductor Christ...

When I arrived at St John’s College, Cambridge, in April 2023, it was a daunting prospect to be taking over the reins of a choir with such a...

Album: Maria Somerville - Luster

Luster’s fifth track “Halo” has the lyric “mystical creatures… of Éirne,” referencing the Irish river and lough of the same name – both...

The Penguin Lessons review - Steve Coogan and his flippered...

As if penguins didn’t have enough to fret about with impending tariffs on exporting guano to America, here comes Steve Coogan to ruffle their...