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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

Pioneering Women, Oxford Ceramics Gallery online review - domestic pleasures

Wednesday, 03 March 2021 Read more...

Hold Still, National Portrait Gallery review - snapshots from lockdown

Friday, 25 September 2020 Read more...

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

Monday, 14 September 2020 Read more...

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

Sunday, 13 September 2020 Read more...

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

Wednesday, 29 July 2020 Read more...

Vincent van Gogh: the reader and the writer

Sunday, 26 July 2020 Read more...

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

Wednesday, 22 July 2020 Read more...

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

Friday, 19 June 2020 Read more...

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

Sunday, 07 June 2020 Read more...

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

Sunday, 24 May 2020 Read more...

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

Monday, 11 May 2020 Read more...

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

Tuesday, 28 April 2020 Read more...

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

Sunday, 19 April 2020 Read more...

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

Friday, 03 April 2020 Read more...

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

Sunday, 29 March 2020 Read more...

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

Thursday, 19 March 2020 Read more...

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