Lucien de Guise

No peace in our time

Lucien de Guise reviews ‘Encounters: Giacometti x Mona Hatoum’ at the Barbican, a timely and unsettling exhibition exploring fragility, violence, and the human form.

Silk Roads at the British Museum: people, places and faith along the way

unlike the british empire, the sun never truly seems to set on the silk road. it doesn’t matter how often that path is travelled, romance is...

Beyond the bling: Mughals, Catholics and glittering works of art

there must be plenty of art enthusiasts who don’t know what a regular mughal is, let alone a great mughal. the memory of a dynasty that was ...

Missing mission: Where's the Christian heritage at the British Museum?

in defence of the uk’s pre-eminent cultural institution, the theft of 2,000 items shows some vigilance when compared with the bibliothèque n...

Turkey votes for Christmas

…or at least its president seems to, explains lucien de guise . there was a glimmer of hope in the miasma of the middle east after the hamas...

Eyeless in Gaza: are we overlooking the finer points of the Philistines?

reappraising a common insult. why is “philistine” a term of abuse? is it an ethnic slur? who is out there defending the rights of any remain...

China's Hidden Century uncovered at the British Museum

lucien de guise finds that a splendid exhibition at the british museum is  full of visual treats. the british museum doesn’t conceal mu...

Dogs at the foot of the Cross

lucien de guise on the tale of two paintings, by craigie aitchison and salvador dalí. scotland is not the first place that comes to min...

This presentation of the Tudors is about the battle for England’s soul

imagine trying to export the tudors without the help of hilary mantel. after her untimely death in the autumn, the cleveland museum of art h...

Is it time to set up a suitable sanctuary for our few remaining relics?

the queues for the relics of st bernadette last autumn were somewhat shorter than for the earthly remains of queen elizabeth ii. the impress...

Francis Bacon: the body and blood

Lucien de Guise is delighted by a show that charts the artist’s tortured return to religion
the royal academy has been transformed for francis bacon: man and beast. there are no more cheerful cascades of summer exhibition paintings;...

Not taking a shine to Catholicism

<I>Lucien de Guise</i> looks at the fifth ‘c’ that’s missing from museum jewellery exhibitions
closing soon in paris is the most recent rendezvous for the west’s occasional romance with the islamic world. ‘cartier and islamic art: in s...

A bonfire of Europe’s vanity

Two definitive art exhibitions in London have been largely overlooked. Is this the new iconoclasm when it comes to Catholic culture?
like the proverbial bus, you wait for an exhibition of catholic cultural interest to come along and then two show up at once. as nobody noti...

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