Melanie McDonagh is a columnist, arts critic and feature writer. She covers art exhibitions and also does some leader writing, interviews and occasional beauty/fragrance features....
Melanie McDonagh is a columnist, arts critic and feature writer. She covers art exhibitions and also does some leader writing, interviews and occasional beauty/fragrance features.
First South American Pope spoke to non-Catholics as well as Catholics and warned politicians against the ‘logic of fear’
From his depictions of powerful women of the time to religious work featuring Mary Magdalene and the Virgin Mary, this show is just heavenly
This exhibition shows a different side to the ubiquitous Impressionists
Plutocratic loos, fake Battenberg and a very vibey piano — Melanie McDonagh gives her verdict on a tea for the super rich
75 years after Myanmar became independent of Britain, this small but interesting exhibition looks at the diversity of the region
Diana dominates the first half of the Crown's final and riskiest season
The museum's forthcoming exhibition is a chance to see fragile works that won't travel again for many years
Our coverage of Charles highlights how the country has changed in eight decades. Melanie McDonagh looks back on the making of a monarch
In just a few strokes of the brush the German painter introduces us to living, breathing human beings
Can Rishi Sunak spirit away the ghosts of yesteryear?
The museum's new show encourages us to disapprove of our preoccupation with beauty standards, but it's been part of society for ever
From the right to roam to Greenham Common, this exhibition is about access to and the ownership of land