Donating to the National Portrait Gallery

Go to the Delfina Foundation Gallery round the back of Victoria to see Then for Now, the fundraising exhibition of works donated by old alumni and curated by Sacha Craddock and Chantal Joffe.  The exhibition is a bit of a mixed up mishmash and not really very coherent but, as the neat little catalogue explain, … Continued

Is Auerbach the Greatest?

I meet Gill at Tate Britain and take a look at the Frank Auerbach exhibition. The question arises as to whether Auerbach is now the greatest living British artist?  Well, aside from the fact that he was born in Berlin*, at age 84 he’s probably the most eminent and respected, not least because his work … Continued