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Robin Simon

The Spectator

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The art of resurrecting forgotten artists

A retired priest in North Wales told me that after the war he had been asked by Billy Butlin to buy 19th-century paintings for the holiday-camp...

04.06.2026 10

The Spectator

Robin Simon

Art / The art of resurrecting forgotten artists

A retired priest in North Wales told me that after the war he had been asked by Billy Butlin to buy 19th-century paintings for the holiday-camp...

04.06.2026 10

The Spectator

Robin Simon

Exhibitions / The truth about artists’ optical aids

The first thing you see on entering this major new Viennese exhibition is not one of Canaletto and his nephew Bernardo Bellotto’s majestic paintings...

11.04.2026 20

The Spectator

Robin Simon

Exhibitions / How Greece carried the arts to rustic Rome

‘Cultural cringe’, that lovely Aussie coinage, perfectly describes the Roman attitude towards Greece. The curators don’t say so, but it is the...

25.02.2026 10

The Spectator

Robin Simon

How Greece carried the arts to rustic Rome

‘Cultural cringe’, that lovely Aussie coinage, perfectly describes the Roman attitude towards Greece. The curators don’t say so, but it is the...

19.02.2026 20

The Spectator

Robin Simon

Arts / The alt-right are clueless about neoclassicism

10.02.2026 7

The Spectator

Robin Simon

Arts / The alt-right are clueless about neoclassicism

10.02.2026 10

The Spectator

Robin Simon

Exhibitions / Constable changed the course of painting, not Turner

07.01.2026 20

The Spectator

Robin Simon

Exhibitions / Constable changed the course of painting, not Turner

07.01.2026 8

The Spectator

Robin Simon