Lucy Scholes

A Riot of Color

In the 1930s, the British photographer Yevonde made herself synonymous with the vibrant new color photography process Vivex.

Made Alone and Imperatively

The British painter Maeve Gilmore found her muse in family and the home—but that refuge was not an idyll.

Where Are You Really From?

With her recent novels, Sarah Moss has proved herself to be one of the most discerning chroniclers of contemporary British life.

Drinks, Dance, and Debauchery at the Museum

“Into the Night: Cabarets and Clubs in Modern Art" isn’t simply interested in cabarets and clubs in Modern art, or Modern art in cabarets and clubs, for that matter; this is a deeper and more thoughtful examination of the symbiosis between the two. 

Paula Rego’s Wild Women

Paula Rego’s subjects are physically vulnerable, but it’s clear that she’s not painting victims.

Penelope Mortimer: A Writing Life

While The Pumpkin Eater cemented Penelope Mortimer's professional reputation, it did little to free her from the bonds of domesticity; it simply made her famous for writing about them.

The Bloomsbury Group’s Most Famous Work of Art

Hidden among the chalk hills of East Sussex is Charleston, the sixteenth-century farmhouse and gardens that the Bloomsbury Group transformed into their most famous work of art.

The Surrealist Eye of Lee Miller

“Lee Miller and Surrealism in Britain” dissects both the trope of Miller-as-muse and the female body-as-object more generally in a series of swift, sharp slices.

Laura Linney as Lucy Barton

My Name is Lucy Barton is a story that’s as much about what’s not there and what’s not said as what is; the novel embraces this ambiguity in a way that a stage production, with its necessary dependence on presence, is unable to rival.

A Mythic, Cool America

The beating heart—or, in this case, the mechanized pump—of the "America’s Cool Modernism: O’Keeffe to Hopper" is where industrialization in all shapes and forms takes center stage.

A New Lease of Life for Kettle’s Yard Gallery

Part of the charm of Kettle’s Yard, an impressive private collection of contemporary art in Cambridge which reopened in early February of this year, has always been the juxtaposition between old and new.

Soutine's Butcher Boys

Dressed from head to toe in a vibrant red uniform with gleaming gold buttons, hands defiantly on hips, legs spread wide, Soutine's bellboy perfectly captures the tension, seen throughout this exhibition, between personal dignity and professional subservience.