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The William MB Berger Prize for British Art History 2009 of £5000 was awarded to Diana  Donald and Jane Munro for Endless Forms: Charles Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts at a reception at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in London on Wednesday 7 July 2010, and was presented by The Hon [...]

The William MB Berger Prize for British Art History 2009 will be awarded at a reception at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in London on Wednesday 7 July 2010, when the prize of £5000 will be presented by The Hon Lady Roberts, Royal Librarian.The winner is chosen from a Short List [...]

Ten years of The British Art Journal[Editorial]This special double issue of The British Art Journal [Vol. X, NO. 3, Winter 2009/2010] celebrates ten years of the journal’s existence. Our first numbers were supported by a few private individuals but also by advertisers, most of whom have remained with us ever since. One of those with [...]

Robin Simon’s review in the current BAJ of Charles Saumarez Smith’s short history of the National Gallery, which is interesting not least for what it does not make explicit: the uncomfortable circumstances of Smith’s own relationship with his chairman of trustees. Nor does he mention how the National Gallery attempted to prevent his publishing the [...]

Bonnie Prince… Henry?Treasured Scottish portrait is definitely not of Bonnie Prince Charlie, expert on Jacobite portraiture decides in the new issue of The British Art Journal. Read the report in the ScotsmanNow the Scottish National Portrait Gallery agrees: see the BBC website. More reports in Daily Telegraph, Independent, Daily Mail, and watch on STV Last [...]

The WINNER of the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History 2008 (books published 1 September 2007-31 August 2008) was announced at a reception hosted by Robin Simon, Editor of The British Art Journal, at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art on 2 July 2009. The winner is Thomas P Campbell [...]

The Long List for the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History 2008 (for books published 1 September 2007-31 August 2008) is below. The Short List of six will be decided at the end of June 2009 and published here and the Prize will be awarded at a ceremony in London on 2 July [...]

Daily Mail Friday 20 March 2009Capturing the glitz of a great era Anthony Van Dyck’s dazzling pictures reflect the glitz and glamour of the most sophisticated court this country has ever seen. He transformed portrait painting in Britain from the moment of his arrival in as a precocious twenty-one-year-old in 1620. As this exhibition shows, [...]

The British Art Journal, Vol. IX, No. 3 (Winter 2008/9) The exquisite city of Lucca is famous for its romanesque architecture, for one of the best restaurants in Italy, and for being the birthplace of Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), whose 250th anniversary has been noisily celebrated all over the world. The city now has another favourite [...]

That Damien Hirst sale. Was it an entirely legal scam?This is Robin Simon’s editorial in The British Art Journal, Vo. IX, No. 2 (Autumn 2008)Left hand, right hand…We promise not to mention the Turner Prize ever again. With any luck, euthanasia will soon be applied to what is clearly a very sick patient: the Turner [...]