

Melanie McDonagh is a columnist, arts critic and feature writer. She covers art exhibitions and also does some leader writing, interviews and occasional beauty/fragrance features.
Melanie McDonagh is a columnist, arts critic and feature writer. She covers art exhibitions and also does some leader writing, interviews and occasional beauty/fragrance features.

PIle ’em high… and perhaps take some binoculars to see the brushstrokes in that painting 10 feet above your head

No sooner had the actress uttered the words ‘sperm’ and ‘salmon’, than Melanie McDonagh had booked herself in for the same fishy treatment. But did it work?

He was once thought of as among the greatest of Dutch painters, and this exhibition proves his worth

For art lovers pursuing an unforgettable experience, Le Meurice’s trails exploring pieces from three prominent Parisian artists are just the ticket

An opportunity to see another aspect to Richard Parkes Bonington, a painter who died too young. As for Turner, can you ever have enough?

As ever, the costumes steal the costume drama in the show that takes Jane Austen’s last, incomplete novel and runs with it

From London to Altotting, via Augsnurg — Melanie McDonagh finds German trains are no better than our own

He was the ‘father of the atomic bomb’, she is a plastic doll. The Barbie v Oppenheimer marketing marathon has gone too far, says Melanie McDonagh

The BBC newsreader’s wife delivered the statement ‘primarily out of concern for his mental well-being and to protect our children’