Kelly Grovier

Spectator Book of the Year 'Grovier's book reframes [Banksy's] works in a new light. Inextricably linked to Da Vinci, Monet and Van Gogh, Banksy not only makes art but reinvigorates it' Daily Mail A new take on the history of art - from da Vinci to Warhol - as reinterpreted and ultimately reinforced by the international phenomenon that is Banksy...

A unique insight into the life and art of Sean Scully, an internationally celebrated artist and creative practitioner at the height of his powers. Sean Scully's paintings of brushy stripes and blocks of sumptuous colour are critically acclaimed and widely admired. Less well known is what a gifted storyteller and profound commentator on the history of art he is. In...

A new way of appreciating art that puts the artwork front and centre, brought to us by one of the freshest and most exciting voices in cultural criticism. What makes great art great? Why do some works pulse in the imagination, generation after generation, century after century? From Botticelli's Birth of Venus to Picasso's Guernica, some paintings and sculptures have...

The Artists' Colour Box explores the fascinating stories behind the paints and pigments used by the great artists. The front of each card in this collection outlines a pigment's history—its discovery or invention, production, and usage—along with a swatch. On the back, you'll find a notable work from the history of art that prominently features the pigment. The 52 pigments...

The last few decades have seen a complete untethering of what art can be, who makes it, and where it can be found. This shift has been matched by a reassessment of art's appropriate place in society and the financial value that should be attached to it. Art Since 1989 surveys the dynamic developments in art worldwide, searching for those...

Finalist for the Marfield Prize, the National Award for Arts Writing: a unique approach to the history of art told through the story of colour and pigments. As Featured on BBC Worldwide Did you know that the ultramarine that shimmers at the centre of Vermeer's Milkmaid connects that masterpiece with 6th-century Zoroastrian paintings found on the walls of cave temples...