Analysis of Salvador Dalí’s Forgotten Horizon by Sid Connor   Image available from: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/dali-forgotten-horizon-t01078 Forgotten Horizon (1936), oil on mahogany panel, is one of a … Read more

This is the text for a catalogue essay accompanying the forthcoming online exhibition ‘Fascinating Fears’ curated by Kent students taking the undergraduate Art History module … Read more

  ‘Do you like Frida Kahlo?’ This was a somewhat unexpected question to receive at the coffee-break during an American Summer School on British art, … Read more

The winner of the John Fisher Memorial Prize for 2021 is Dr Claire Anscomb for her paper entitled “Creative Agency as Executive Agency: Grounding the … Read more

  Ben Thomas, Reader in Art History, has interviewed the artist Silvia Rosi for the Italian Cultural Institute in London.   Italian-Togolaise artist Silvia Rosi talks … Read more

  Ben Thomas, Reader in History of Art, has published a new book. Edgar Wind and Modern Art: In Defence of Marginal Anarchy (Bloomsbury, 2020) … Read more

In light of The National Gallery’s exhibition Artemisa (6 January – 24 January 2021), the work of Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi has become somewhat of … Read more

Diego Velazquez, a court painter for the Spanish King Philip IV, took a futuristic approach in how he tackled his role of court painting: he … Read more

Hans Maes and co-author Petra van Brabandt have just published a monograph (in Dutch) on the ‘art vs porn’ debate.   Art or Porn? The … Read more

  I’ve been a big fan of Roberto Calasso ever since one of my students introduced me to The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, and … Read more