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Explore current exhibitions featuring John Ruskin's works. Research past shows & exhibitions to gain deeper insight into the artist's history.
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The art historian, essayist and social reformer John Ruskin, after whom Ruskin College in Oxford is named, is well known, but what may not be so well known is his extraordinary – and perhaps ...
John Ruskin thought his late work displayed “distinctive characters in the execution, indicative of mental disease”. A fellow painter, Benjamin Robert Haydon, thought that “Turner’s pictures always ...
As Tate marks Turner’s 250th birthday, his visions of a wild world still elevate, soothe and harrow the soul ...
A portrait of art critic John Ruskin by Henry Sigismund Uhlrich Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Though Ruskin did make art, he devoted the majority of his career to writing about it—which ...
Northern Soul's Rachael Richards chats to Poppy Bowers, exhibition curator at Whitworth Art Gallery, about John Ruskin’s legacy and plans for his bicentenary.
Not surprisingly, Hilton handles with ease and insight Ruskin’s own artwork and the art-historical contexts of his life and writing.
In 1854, at a time when divorce was considered taboo, Effie Gray went to court to annul her marriage to art critic John Ruskin. Gray cited the non-consummation of their wedding vows as ...
Collaborating with Edinburgh Printmakers, artists like John Byrne, John Bellany and Alasdair Gray pushed boundaries that resulted in striking works of art.
Paul Thomas Murphy’s “Falling Rocket: James Whistler, John Ruskin, and the Battle for Modern Art” provides a snapshot of the founding litigation of modern art.
This week sees the opening of a fascinating new exhibition at Sheffield’s Millennium Gallery that focuses on the connections between two 19th century British artists and a 20th century German ...