Andrew Graham-Dixon Art critic, journalist, TV presenter, author, lecturer and educationalist.
Andrew Graham-Dixon Art critic, journalist, TV presenter, author, lecturer and educationalist.
Chinese Art

Art of Change
Date: 09-09-2012
Owning Institution: The Hayward Gallery
Publication: Sunday Telegraph Reviews 2004-2013      
Subject:   Now    
Divine to difficult
Date: 18-12-2011
Owning Institution:
Publication:                     Sunday Telegraph Reviews 2004-2013  
Subject:             Renaissance  Now  Middle Ages & Earlier  19th Century    
The Emperor Has Clothes
Date: 30-01-2011
Owning Institution: V & A.
Publication: Sunday Telegraph Reviews 2004-2013            
Subject:   17th Century  18th Century  19th Century  20th Century    
Looking back on 2010
Date: 19-12-2010
Owning Institution:
Publication:               Sunday Telegraph Reviews 2004-2013  
Subject:         Now  20th Century  16th Century    
Ai Wei Wei at Tate Modern.
Date: 17-10-2010
Owning Institution: Tate Modern
Publication:       Sunday Telegraph Reviews 2004-2013  
Subject:   Now  20th Century    
The Printed Image in China
Date: 23-05-2010
Owning Institution: British Museum
Publication: Sunday Telegraph Reviews 2004-2013              
Subject:   18th Century  19th Century  20th Century  Now      
The First Emperor: China’s Terracotta Army, at the British Museum
Date: 16-09-2007
Owning Institution: The British Museum
Publication:     Sunday Telegraph Reviews 2004-2013  
Subject:   Middle Ages & Earlier    
Ding Yi and Mike Marshall at The Ikon Gallery 2005
Date: 04-12-2005
Owning Institution: The Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Publication:         Sunday Telegraph Reviews 2004-2013  
Subject:       Now    
China: The Three Emperors, at the Royal Academy 2005
Date: 20-11-2005
Owning Institution: The Royal Academy, London
Publication:       Sunday Telegraph Reviews 2004-2013  
Subject:   18th Century  17th Century    
Compton Verney in Warwickshire, A New(ish) Museum in England 2005
Date: 16-01-2005
Owning Institution: Compton Verney
Publication: Sunday Telegraph Reviews 2004-2013                  
Subject:   18th Century  19th Century  20th Century  Middle Ages & Earlier  Renaissance        
ITP 106: Seated Buddha by an anonymous artist
Date: 28-04-2002
Owning Institution: Royal Academy of Art
Publication:     Sunday Telegraph “In The Picture”  
Subject:   Middle Ages & Earlier    
ITP 60: The Emperor Rebuffs ‘The Beautiful Wife Who Knew Herself to Be Beautiful’ attributed to Gu Kaizhi, from Admonitions of the Instructress to the Court Ladies
Date: 10-06-2001
Owning Institution: British Museum.
Publication:   Sunday Telegraph “In The Picture”    
Subject: Middle Ages & Earlier      
Pride and prejudice
Date: 05-12-1989
Owning Institution: Lisson Gallery
Publication:             The Independent 1987 - 1999  
Subject:         Now  20th Century    

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At present, all of Andrew's reviews for the Sunday Telegraph are on the site,  as well as every example of the cult column Andrew wrote between 2002 and 2007 entitled "In the Picture".We are still working to input the Independent articles, which we hope will be on before too long!.

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Praise for Andrew Graham-Dixon:


"Andrew Graham-Dixon is the leading British art critic..."
Robert Hughes

"Andrew Graham-Dixon is the dean of art critics."
A.A. Gill, the Sunday Times

"There is always something that cheers and invigorates - something that makes the reader feel more intelligent and alive."
Anthony Quinn, in the Observer.

"The pleasure is in the ideas. They fairly steam long... Graham-Dixon gets them over skilfully and succinctly without ever getting bogged down or self-conscious."
Matthew Collings, in the Independent on Sunday

"Andrew Graham-Dixon's range is unusually wide, his prose style so supple and his analysis of artists and their work so absorbing that the reader begins by being enthralled and ends by being enriched. How is this achieved? Generally, each piece begins with a description of a particular work of art in which the chief characteristics of the artist are revealed and then held up for re-examination in a wider context, invariably leading to fresh insights or reinterpretations... As a critic he is remarkably self-effacing,reserving the space for opinions on art and artists as opposed to displays of irascibility or bouts of petulance...  Then there is his irreverent sense of humour. For example, Boucher and Fragonard are described as 'painters of airborne brothels' and Giacometti's fuigures are introduced as 'graduates of one of the most punishing physical regimes of modern times: the Alberto Giacometti Total Fitness Programme'. Yet such asides are soon abandoned for passages of sustained prose that often have the plangency of a meditation, only to be brought to a sudden halt by a startling epigram. Many of these last are brilliant apercus that are both memorable and instructive..."
Christopher Lloyd, Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures, in The Daily Express

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