Richard Dorment is the art critic of the Daily Telegraph. Among the exhibitions he has organized is “James McNeill Whistler,” seen at the Tate Gallery, London, the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (June 2013)
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Andy Warhol and His Foundation: The Questions
June 20, 2013
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Beautiful, Aesthetic, Erotic
February 23, 2012
The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination
by Fiona MacCarthy
The New Painting of the 1860s: Between the Pre-Raphaelites and the Aesthetic Movement
by Allen Staley
Edward Burne-Jones: The Hidden Humorist
by John Christian
The Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement in Britain, 1860–1900 an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, April 2–July 17, 2011; the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, September 12, 2011–January 15, 2012; and the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, February 18–July 17, 2012
The Cult of Beauty: The Victorian Avant-Garde, 1860–1900
edited by Lynn Federle Orr and Stephen Calloway, assisted by Esmé Whittaker
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How Andy Warhol’s Red Self-Portraits Were Made
August 18, 2011
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Warhol Under the Waldorf
August 18, 2011
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‘What Andy Warhol Did’: An Exchange
June 9, 2011
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What Andy Warhol Did
April 7, 2011
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The Passions of Vincent van Gogh
March 25, 2010
Vincent van Gogh: The Letters: The Complete Illustrated and Annotated Edition
edited by Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten, and Nienke Bakker
The Real Van Gogh: The Artist and His Letters
an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, January 23–April 18, 2010
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The Warhol Foundation on Trial
February 25, 2010
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What Is a Warhol?: An Exchange
December 17, 2009
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‘What Is an Andy Warhol?’: An Exchange
November 19, 2009
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What Is an Andy Warhol?
October 22, 2009
I Sold Andy Warhol (Too Soon)
by Richard Polsky
Andy Warhol
by Arthur C. Danto
Pop: The Genius of Andy Warhol
by Tony Scherman and David Dalton
Joe Simon-Whelan et al. v. the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., et al.
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Primitive in Dresden
May 28, 2009
Brücke: The Birth of Expressionism in Dresden and Berlin, 1905–1913
an exhibition at the Neue Galerie, New York City, February 26–June 29, 2009
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From Shtetl to Château
March 26, 2009
Chagall: A Biography
by Jackie Wullschlager
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Lovable in Parts
April 3, 2008
Jasper Johns: Gray
an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, November 3, 2007–January 6, 2008, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 5–May 4, 2008.
Catalog of the exhibition by James Rondeau and Douglas Druick, with contributions by Mark Pascale, -
Power Portraits
March 1, 2007
Sir Thomas Lawrence
by Michael Levey
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Journey from ‘Nebraska’
December 21, 2006
Plane Image: A Brice Marden Retrospective
Catalog of the exhibition by Gary Garrels
Plane Image: A Brice Marden Retrospective
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What Art Does
December 1, 2005
The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa
by Michael Kimmelman
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On Hanging
September 22, 2005
Art and the Power of Placement
by Victoria Newhouse
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The Artistic Bloke
November 4, 2004
William Nicholson
by Sanford Schwartz
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The Greatest
December 18, 2003
Turner
by James Hamilton
Turner’s Britain
Catalog of the exhibition by James Hamilton
Turner and Venice
Catalog of the exhibition by Ian Warrell
Turner: The Late Seascapes
Catalog of the exhibition by James Hamilton
“The Sun Rising Through Vapour”: Turner’s Early Seascapes
Catalog of the exhibition by Paul Spencer-Longhurst
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In the Garment District
October 10, 2002
Dress in Eighteenth-Century Europe, 1715–1789
by Aileen Ribeiro
Fabric of Vision: Dress and Drapery in Painting
by Anne Hollander
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The Great Room of Art
June 13, 2002
Art on the Line: The Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House, 1780–1836
edited by David H. Solkin
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Gorky’sPanels
April 13, 2000
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Genius in Exile
March 9, 2000
From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky
by Matthew Spender
Black Angel: The Life of Arshile Gorky
by Nouritza Matossian
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His Son the Art Dealer
September 23, 1999
Matisse: Father & Son
by John Russell
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Contretemps at Prince’s Gate
June 10, 1999
The Peacock Room: A Cultural Biography
by Linda Merrill
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The Triumph of Matisse
January 14, 1999
The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse, The Early Years, 1869-1908
by Hilary Spurling
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Half-Full Use
May 23, 1996
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The Perfectionist
November 30, 1995
William Morris: A Life for Our Time by Fiona MacCarthy
The Collected Letters of William Morris edited by Norman Kelvin
Vol. I, 18481880
Vol. II, Part A, 18811884
Vol. II, Part B, 18851888
Vols. III and IV forthcoming
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Reading Hogarth
October 7, 1993
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An Exchange on Hogarth
August 12, 1993
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The Genius of Gin Lane
May 27, 1993
Hogarth: Volume 1: The ‘Modern Moral Subject,’ 16971732 by Ronald Paulson
Hogarth: Volume 2: High Art and Low, 17321750 by Ronald Paulson
Hogarth: Volume 3: Art and Politics, 17501764 by Ronald Paulson
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Painting in the Dark
November 19, 1992
Magritte an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London, May 21August 2;. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, September 9November 22;. The Menil Collection, Houston, December 15, 1992February 21, 1993;. The Art Institute, Chicago, March 16May 30, 1993
Magritte: The Silence of the World by David Sylvester
Magritte catalog of the exhibition by Sarah Whitfield
René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné; Vol I: Oil Paintings 19161930 by David Sylvester, by Sarah Whitfield, edited by David Sylvester
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Lautrec’s Bitter Theater
December 19, 1991
The Letters of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec edited by Herbert D. Schimmel, Introduction by Gale B. Murray
Toulouse-Lautrec 1991January 19, 1992 Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, February 21June 1, 1992 an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London, October 10,
Toulouse-Lautrec Yale University Press catalog of the exhibition by Richard Thomson, by Claire Frèches-Thory, by Anne Roquebert, by Danièle Devynck
Toulouse-Lautrec: The Formative Years, 18781891 by Gale B. Murray
Nightlife of Paris: The Art of Toulouse Lautrec by Patrick O'Connor
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Venice Out of Season
October 24, 1991
The Venetian Hours of Henry James, Whistler and Sargent by Hugh Honour, by John Fleming
James Abbott McNeill Whistler: A Life by Gordon Flemíng
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‘The Art of Exclusion’
December 6, 1990
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Painting the Unpaintable
September 27, 1990
Facing History: The Black Image in American Art, 17101940 by Guy C. McElroy, with an essay by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
The Art of Exclusion: Representing Blacks in the Nineteenth Century by Albert Boime
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Working Girl
February 15, 1990
Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun translated by Lionel Strachey, with an introduction by John Russell
The Memoirs of Elisabeth Vigée-Le Brun translated by Siân Evans
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Art and Traffic
March 12, 2010
With the opening of an exhibition of nine important old master paintings from Dulwich Picture Gallery at the Frick Gallery this month, New Yorkers are at most a mere cab ride away from seeing major yet relatively little-known paintings by van Dyck and Poussin, Rembrandt, Murillo, Watteau, and Gainsborough. Even if you think you know these artists well, go anyway: these pictures rarely travel and many are atypical of the artist’s work.