Features
Britain by the Pacific
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California, has one of the finest holdings of 20th-century British art in America, the creation of a discerning and committed group of collectors. Peyton Skipwith makes a selection of highlights of its paintings and drawings.
Read more
Dog days
The painter of Bedlington terriers, landscapes and crucifixions was destined to be a lawyer, before a painting in the Tate changed his life. Martin Gayford visits Craigie Aitchison in his south London home and finds an artist who is a law to himself. Photographs by Derry Moore.
Seeking the human story
Canada’s cultural capital is changing fast. Toronto’s latest and most ambitious addition, the Art Gallery of Ontario, designed by Frank Gehry, houses the extraordinary art collection – in fact, a series of worldclass collections – formed by the late Ken Thomson. Susan Moore reports.
Beauty is truth
Horace Wood Brock – universally known as ‘Woody’ – is a collector with both a theory and a mission. In the month that an exhibition of decorative art and drawings from his collection opens at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, he talks to Michael Hall.
Warmer times, better climes?
Isabel Andrews previews the American International Fine Art Fair in Palm Beach, which, despite the current financial gloom, is facing the future with optimism.
