Michael Prodger

Michael Prodger is associate editor at the New Statesman.

The Renaissance in drawing

Two exhibitions reveal how, for the great Renaissance artists, drawing was both a tool for making paintings and a form of self-expression.

By Michael Prodger

By Michael Prodger, Zuzanna Lachendro, Rachel Cunliffe and Zoë Huxford

By Michael Prodger

By Michael Prodger, George Monaghan, Zuzanna Lachendro and Zoë Huxford

By Michael Prodger, Anna Leszkiewicz, Tom Gatti and Megan Gibson

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Also featuring Immaculate Forms by Helen King and Augustus the Strong by Tim Blanning.

By Pippa Bailey, George Monaghan, Michael Prodger and Finn McRedmond

Also featuring Red Threads by Henry Bell and The Story of Nature by Jeremy Mynott.

By Michael Prodger, Zuzanna Lachendro, Megan Kenyon and Barney Horner

Also featuring Warsaw Tales by Antonia Lloyd Jones and Emperor of the Seas by Jack Weatherford.

By Michael Prodger, Zuzanna Lachendro, George Monaghan and Nicholas Harris

Sue Prideaux’s biography of the unruly French painter shows his story was more complicated than that of colonial seducer.

By Michael Prodger

Also featuring Stone Circles by Colin Richards and Vicki Cummings and The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective…

By Michael Prodger, Pippa Bailey and Megan Gibson

The artist moved to Arles in 1888 full of optimism. The National Gallery’s major new exhibition, “Poets and Lovers”,…

By Michael Prodger

Also featuring Four Points of the Compass by Jerry Brotton and The Invention of Good and Evil by Hanno…

By Michael Prodger, Zuzanna Lachendro, Zoë Huxford and Finn McRedmond

Also featuring Sing Like Fish by Amorina Kingdon and Tracks on the Ocean by Sara Caputo.

By Michael Prodger, Pippa Bailey and George Monaghan