Sarah Watling

Sarah Watling is the author of ‘Noble Savages’ (Vintage), a biography of the Olivier sisters, and ‘Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Following Writers and Rebels in the Spanish Civil War’, which will be published in February 2023 by Jonathan Cape.

German photographer Gerda Taro

The unflinching gaze of Gerda Taro

The photographer who bore witness to the Spanish Civil War paid the ultimate price for her fearlessness

26 Jan 2023

Hammock Helen Saunders

The Vorticist who was nearly painted out of history

Helen Saunders was briefly at the forefront of British modernism – before she was cancelled by Wyndham Lewis

27 Oct 2022

Duncan Grant Drawing

Duncan Grant’s private erotica finally gets a public outing

There’s nothing remotely shameful about the artist’s exuberant and explicit sketches of cavorting satyrs and manly men

22 Sep 2022