Florence Hallett

Bio

Florence writes about the visual arts for a range of specialist and general interest publications.

Articles By Florence Hallett

Bruegel, Holburne Museum, Bath Saturday, 11 March 2017 Read more...	Sunday Book: Philip Hook - Rogues' Gallery Sunday, 12 February 2017 Read more...
John Berger: the critic as artist Tuesday, 03 January 2017 Read more...	Best of 2016: Art Thursday, 29 December 2016 Read more...
Sunday Book: Treasure Palaces - Great Writers Visit Great Museums Sunday, 18 December 2016 Read more...	Flaming June, Leighton House Museum Thursday, 24 November 2016 Read more...
Paul Nash, Tate Britain Monday, 31 October 2016 Read more...	Beyond Caravaggio, National Gallery Wednesday, 12 October 2016 Read more...
Picasso Portraits, National Portrait Gallery Thursday, 06 October 2016 Read more...	Turner Prize 2016, Tate Britain Thursday, 29 September 2016 Read more...
Gaga for Dada: The Original Art Rebels, BBC Four Thursday, 22 September 2016 Read more...	Colour, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Friday, 12 August 2016 Read more...
The Banker's Guide to the Art Market, BBC Four Friday, 15 July 2016 Read more...	Art Night London Monday, 04 July 2016 Read more...
theartsdesk in Bilbao: The School of Paris at the Guggenheim Museum Sunday, 29 May 2016 Read more...	Painting with Light, Tate Britain Thursday, 12 May 2016 Read more...

It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.

It followed some...

La Cocina is one of those films that cuts an excellent trailer, succinctly delivering just enough characters, plot and visual...

It’s been 14 years since Alison Krauss and Union Station released an album – 2011’s Paper Aeroplane. The world’s shed a few skins since...

Mariam Batsashvili, the young virtuosa pianist from Georgia, is a star. No doubt about that. Trained at the Liszt Academy in Weimar and winner of...

Tobe Hooper changed cinema with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) for pennies in rancid Southern heat, but came closest to a mainstream...

So much looked promising for Irish National Opera’s first Wagner: the casting, certainly, the conductor – Music Director Fergus Sheil knows and...

When the world’s darkness is too much, there is a Netflix rabbit-hole you can disappear down to a kinder place: the...

It took until the last song before Lauren Mayberry started to well up onstage, which was good going. The singer had mentioned early on the...

On the cover of her eponymous debut album, the Bolton-raised Toria Wooff reclines on a church pew located in Stanley Palace, a 16th-century...

The thrill of hearing “Crawdaddy Simone” never wears off. As the September 1965 B-side of the third single by North London R&B band The...