Tag Archives: National Gallery of Art

Derek Birdsall’s obituary

Graphic designer, typographer and art director Derek Birdsall, who has died aged 89, was one of the profession’s “old guard” and a survivor of the pre-digital age. Highly respected by his peers, his work reached diverse audiences for over fifty years. In the monthly magazine Nova, of which Birdsall was the art director for a… Read More »

We lost faith in art institutions after the British Museum scandal

Stone reception: Parthenon Marbles at the British Museum – Dylan Martinez Looking back at the past year in art, wouldn’t it be nice to start with a few pictures? To shed light on one or two of our museums’ significant recent acquisitions, such as Joshua Reynolds’s Portrait of Mai (c 1776), which the National Portrait… Read More »