Shortlisted for the 2018 Apollo Book of the Year award Pioneered by William Hogarth (1697-1764) and his peers in the early 18th century, and then revitalized by

Grant Kester discusses the disparate network of artists & collectives united by a desire to create new forms of understanding through creative dialogue that cro

This collection of intriguing questions encourages individuals to express their preferences, ideas, and opinions without divulging sensitive personal informatio

"The 'Conversation Piece' is an intriguing contradiction - the high-life group, but caught informally, off-guard. Popular in seventeenth-century Dutch painting,

Professor Praz traces the history of the conversation piece which is am intimate group portrait usually of small dimensions and is a genre which arose in the Lo