Rod Mengham is a fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. His most recent book is ‘Midnight in the Kant Hotel: Art in Present Times’ (Carcanet).
The novelist was a wandering soul, so what can his house in London – now celebrating its centenary as a museum – tell us about the man?
The artist’s depictions of life in West Germany after the war are playful in form but deeply sarcastic under the surface
Before and after the Second World War, David Bomberg explored a vertiginous new style of landscape painting – and his student Frank Auerbach was clearly taking notes
As the painter becomes older, the topsy-turvy figures that populate his invigorating canvases are becoming more skeletal
