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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

Thatcher: A Very British Revolution, Finale, BBC Two review - a heartbreaking account of her decline

Tuesday, 18 June 2019 Read more...

Edouard Vuillard: The Poetry of the Everyday, Holburne Museum, Bath review - dizzying pattern and colour

Tuesday, 11 June 2019 Read more...

Thatcher: A Very British Revolution, BBC Two review - demolishing the boys' club

Tuesday, 21 May 2019 Read more...

Leah Hazard: Hard Pushed review - a midwife's tales

Sunday, 05 May 2019 Read more...

Sorolla: Spanish Master of Light, National Gallery review - a national treasure comes to London

Friday, 26 April 2019 Read more...

Frans de Waal: Mama's Last Hug review - animal feelings

Sunday, 14 April 2019 Read more...

Only Human: Martin Parr, National Portrait Gallery review - relentlessly feelgood

Tuesday, 19 March 2019 Read more...

Kader Attia / Diane Arbus, Hayward Gallery review - views from the margins

Tuesday, 12 March 2019 Read more...

Fiona MacCarthy: Walter Gropius review - a master of modernism

Sunday, 10 March 2019 Read more...

Sam Bourne: To Kill the Truth review - taut thriller of big ideas

Sunday, 24 February 2019 Read more...

Richard J Evans: Eric Hobsbawm - A Life in History review - mesmerisingly readable

Sunday, 17 February 2019 Read more...

John Ruskin: The Power of Seeing, Two Temple Place review - inside the mind of a visionary

Thursday, 14 February 2019 Read more...

Don McCullin: Looking for England, BBC Four review - a hard look at home

Tuesday, 05 February 2019 Read more...

The Last Survivors, BBC Two review - living on

Monday, 28 January 2019 Read more...

Kristen Roupenian: You Know You Want This review - twisted tales

Sunday, 27 January 2019 Read more...

Michael Peppiatt: The Existential Englishman review - we'll always have Paris

Sunday, 27 January 2019 Read more...

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