Marina Vaizey
Bio
Marina Vaizey was art critic for the Financial Times, then the Sunday Times, edited the Art Quarterly, has been a judge for the Turner Prize, and a trustee of several museums; books include 100 Masterpieces, The Artist as Photographer and Great Women Collectors. She's currently a freelance art critic and lecturer. This drawing of Marina as a character from Jane Austen is 40 years old.
Articles By Marina Vaizey
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The Chevalier, St Martin-in-the-Fields review - virtuoso jou...
Shimmeringly urbane, shifting effortlessly from intricate agility to muscular intensity, the music of the 18th century composer Joseph Bologne is...
First Person: Anna Clyne on composing collaborations, not ba...
Collaboration fuels a lot of my music – I love the interaction that takes me outside of my natural tendencies – it’s a source of...
Robert Forster, Lafayette review - élan, spontaneity and tho...
“Learn to Burn” generates the loudest and most sustained applause. As it was originally the opening track of Robert Forster’s 2015 album Songs...
Album: Black Honey - A Fistful of Peaches
There’s a disconnect on the third album by Brighton rockers Black Honey. The music is rousing post-grunge indie...
Turandot, Royal Opera review - spectacle and sound wow in th...
Nearly 40 years old, Andrei Serban’s Royal Opera Turandot feels like a gilded relic (I felt like a relic myself on learning that my...
Osborne, RSNO, Chan, Usher Hall, Edinburgh - cinematic sweep...
Two women featured prominently in this programme; the one a composer and the other a conductor.
To the composer first. Long before she hit...
The Beasts review - a countryside idyll loses its charm
The Beasts (As Bestas) is all of two hours and 17 minutes long, and yet to look away is never an option. ...
DVD/Blu-ray: Living
Mr Williams (a wonderfully restrained, Oscar-nominated Bill Nighy) is taking time off work from his job in the Public Works department at County...
Dance of Death, National Theatre of Norway, Coronet Theatre...
You don’t have to be Scandinavian to act out Strindberg’s fantastical extremes at the highest level, but I’ve not seen any British performers come...
Allelujah review - Alan Bennett put through the blender
I'm proffering just a tad less than three cheers for Allelujah, the film version of...