Financial Times

Americans in Paris Exhibition Review:
“The Artists Who Blossomed in the Postwar Freedom of France”
Financial Times, March 20, 2024

New York’s Grey Art Museum show adds nuance to the story of how modern art evolved, with works from Joan Mitchell and lesser-known names By Ariella Budick The classic story of modern art goes like this: there once was a city called Paris, where the world’s most brilliant artists converged, jostling and mingling into an […]

Art After Stonewall — exhilarating New York exhibition charts the fight for gay rights
Financial Times, May 9, 2019

Nobody was plotting revolution on the night of June 28 1969 at the mafia-run gay bar on Christopher Street in Manhattan’s West Village. Mostly, patrons just wanted to be left alone. The police raided the Stonewall Inn, as they often did, but this time they met resistance, and resistance detonated six days of mayhem. Someone uprooted a parking meter and used it as a battering ram. Street kids formed a chorus line and faced down the police with synchronised kicks and a song:“We are the Stonewall Girls, / We wear our hair in curls, / We wear no underwear, / We show our pubic hair.” A fire hose was deployed.

The not-so-good life: how postwar Italy rediscovered itself
Financial Times, October 5, 2018

The second world war left Italy in a shambles that proved fruitful for art. A republic was born amid the rubble and, after decades of fascist mythmaking, a new artistic frankness thrived. Yet one form of stylistic narrowness gave way to another — novelists, film-makers and photo graphers subscribed to the tenets of neorealism and united around a common project: to portray their devastated country unsparingly, with all its squalor, toughness and hope.