Rosalind McKever is the Harry M. Weinrebe Curatorial Fellow at the National Gallery, London
The National Portrait Gallery celebrates the woman who Cecil Beaton called 'a new icon of femininity'
Authenticity is out of fashion
Is London's attention shifting away from Italian art?
Barbara Hepworth once called plaster 'a dead material'. She was wrong
The term 'avant-garde' has shifted meaning from its military roots to the byword for artistic innovation. How should we apply it to art history?
Bonalumi was a pivotal figure in post-war Italian abstraction; finally he's getting the attention he deserves
In December an audience spilling out of a theatre into a cold night is a familiar sight. Carlo Carrà’s Leaving the Theatre captures figures outside La Scala in Milan in 1910, wrapped up against the elements, dispersing under glittering streetlights. The painting, one of London’s best examples of early Futurism, requires urgent restoration work. The […]
An extraordinary quantity of post-war Italian art has been exhibited, sold and written about this year. What's behind the rich pickings?
In 1959 a flash of activity illuminated Milan’s already vibrant artistic scene
Scientists have developed an algorithm that identifies visual affinities between paintings. Are we all out of a job?
