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.
Break up the slog of Christmas shopping with a slice of cake (and civility)
Planting inspiration no matter the size of your garden
Hidden from us, not them, this packed 100 years tells a complex story of profound and rapid change
Ahead of the King’s coronation this weekend, Melanie McDonagh sniffs out the chief purveyors of fragrance to the royal households
This is a welcome adaptation of the 18th century novel dubbed ‘the mother of all romcoms’
An excellent exploration of representations of the saint by artists from Caravaggio to Antony Gormley
This gorgeous exhibition shows that even if the Greeks thought the Persians were effete decadents, they shared a taste for the finer things in life
There’s poetry on the walls in this fascinating examination of these mainstays of the Pre-Raphaelite movement
The painter, who helped shape Impressionism, was at the centre of the Paris art world at its most exciting
This exhibition of art featuring man’s best friend spans centuries, from a second century sculpture to David Hockney and Lucian Freud