Sarah Whitfield, Author at Catholic Herald

Sarah Whitfield

Fine art: Contemporary art’s stunning spirituality

December 07, 2017

Everything at Once The Store, London WC2, until December 10 Last chance For many years contemporary art has been moving away from the traditional gallery space and, like some great Leviathan rising from the deep, set about invading a wider world. Take the Venice Biennale, for instance, where churches, palaces, libraries and old industrial buildings

Fine art: Why there was no going back for Cézanne

November 09, 2017

Paul Cézanne was a stickler for tradition. As John Elderfield, the curator of the absorbing exhibition Cézanne Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery, points out in the catalogue, the painter was “highly suspicious of modernisation, famously complaining about the introduction of street lighting in Marseilles because it spoiled the twilight”. Conservative Cézanne certainly was, yet

Fine art: The painter with a touch of the paparazzo

October 12, 2017

Degas: A Passion for Perfection marks the centenary of Degas’s death on September 27, 1917. Clever acquisitions and more than one dose of good fortune has allowed the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge to build up exceptional holdings of Degas’s works in paintings, drawings, pastels, prints and sculpture (it owns the only original sculptures by Degas in

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