©John-Paul Stonard, 2016
I’m a full-time writer and art historian interested in art throughout history. I am currently writing a book about the story of art, and a history of the collection at Chatsworth House, both books to be published by Bloomsbury UK. My previous books include Germany Divided: Baselitz and his Generation (British Museum Press, 2014); and, as editor and contributor, The Books that Shaped Art History (Thames & Hudson, 2013). I was a curator of the acclaimed exhibition ‘Kenneth Clark: Looking for Civilisation’, at Tate Britain, and also curated the exhibition Melancholia. A Sebald Variation at Somerset House in 2017. My writing on art can be found in The Guardian, the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, the Burlington Magazine, and Apollo Magazine.
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Some recent articles
02 March 2018 — The Monuments that made Mexico, Apollo Magazine
30 November 2017 — ‘Chaïm Soutine at the Courtauld’, London Review of Books
15 September 2017 — ‘Burned, frozen, winched, dangled and hit by a car: the shocking extreme art of Guido Van der Werve’, Guardian Review
13 September 2017 — ‘How Hartwig Fischer plans to transform the British Museum’, Apollo Magazine
5 August 2017 — ‘Jodie Carey Earthcasts’, Frieze Magazine
8 June 2017 – ‘At the Palace Museum’ London Review of Books
19 May 2017 — ‘The Great Wave that Swept the World’, The Guardian [Preview of Hokusai exhibition at the British Museum]
15 May 2017 — ‘A Tribute to A.R. Penck’, Apollo Magazine
22 Feb 2017 — ‘New Ways of Representing the World’, Times Literary Supplement [Review of David Hockney exhibition at Tate Britain]
8th October 2016 — ‘Too much is enough’, The Guardian [On exhibition of prints by Howard Hodgkin at the Alan Cristea Gallery]
3rd September 2016 — ‘Not just macho heroes with brushes’, The Guardian [Preview of Abstract Expressionism at the Royal Academy]
11th March 2016 — ‘He was one of the great Venetian artists, but who was Giorgione?’, The Guardian
24th September 2015 — ‘Because it happens to be better’, London Review of Books [Letter about Frank Auerbach]
January 2015 — Damien Hirst. The Complete Spot Paintings 1986–2011, [Book review] The Burlington Magazine
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