John Ruskin
Effie Gray review – Emma Thompson’s entertaining take on a doomed Victorian marriage
Dakota Fanning performs with gusto in this slightly hammy account of John Ruskin and Effie Gray’s marital disaster
Peter Bradshaw
12, Apr, 2021 @9:32 AM
Phyllis Rose: ‘Power still resides in marriage’
The US author on her reissued classic about Victorian literary couples, the danger of ‘cancelling’ writers, and why gossip is underrated
Rachel Cooke
14, Mar, 2020 @6:00 PM
Country diary: the stream's lazy crawl is deceptive
Gillfield Wood, South Yorkshire: After heavy rain, the Totley Brook has teeth, and the threat of flooding is ever-present
Ed Douglas
27, Sep, 2019 @4:30 AM
Kathy Acker's astonishing vision and Bacon bares all – the week in art
The ICA illuminates Acker’s words with some terrific art and Modern One in Edinburgh celebrates Francis Bacon’s images of blood and guts in 1950s Soho
Jonathan Jones
03, May, 2019 @1:00 PM
Ruskin blazes and the Queen unleashes the end of the world – the week in art
Her Majesty’s Da Vinci drawings of everything from anatomy to armageddon go on tour, the might of Michelangelo is challenged, and science washes up in Margate
Jonathan Jones
25, Jan, 2019 @4:22 PM
What to see this week in the UK
From Vice to John Ruskin, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days
Andrew Pulver, Michael Cragg, John Fordham, Andrew Clements, Jonathan Jones, Miriam Gillinson and Lyndsey Winship
25, Jan, 2019 @9:00 AM
John Ruskin: The Power of Seeing review - oddball or visionary?
The influential critic, social reformer and troubled genius profoundly changed British culture. In his 200th anniversary year, can this exhibition help us see him clearly?
Jonathan Jones
24, Jan, 2019 @5:18 PM
10 great European art anniversaries in 2019
From 100 years of Bauhaus to 500 years since Leonardo’s death, a host of landmark art events and exhibitions open around Europe this year
Rachel Dixon
18, Jan, 2019 @6:30 AM
Climate change ravages Turner’s majestic glaciers
New images by Emma Stibbon of locations used by Turner and Ruskin highlight the toll taken on Alpine landscape
Dalya Alberge
06, Jan, 2019 @5:59 AM
Ruskin the radical: why the Victorian critic is back with a vengeance
He believed life should be beautiful, inequality was an outrage and that capitalism leads to aesthetic degradation. No wonder the quintessential Victorian speaks so powerfully to our times
Larry Ryan
30, Aug, 2018 @8:15 AM
Writers and Their Mothers review – the legacy of maternal blessings
Made, marred, mollycoddled and inspired … Philip Larkin, Ian McEwan and Samuel Beckett are among the authors in this lively collection of affectionate and celebratory essays
Anthony Quinn
10, Mar, 2018 @7:30 AM
Britain’s best-loved artwork is a Banksy. That’s proof of our stupidity | Jonathan Jones
Banksy’s work is not real art, which should be complex and difficult, writes Guardian art critic Jonathan Jones
Jonathan Jones
26, Jul, 2017 @2:35 PM
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