Anna McNay
A small selection of some of my writings for Art Quarterly both during my time as Assistant Editor and since
Winter 2024
Funded Feature: Mary Robinson: Actress, Mistress, Writer, Radical at Chawton House, Farnham
Q: Maggi Hambling
Autumn 2024
Focus: Bethlem Museum of the Mind
Funded: The Box, Plymouth
Summer 2024
Meet the Collectors: Peggy Guggenheim
Spring 2024
Feature: Unravel, Barbican Art Gallery, London
Book Review: Colour Revolution: Victorian Art, Fashion and Design, Ashmolean Museum and Sargent and Fashion, Tate Publishing
Winter 2023
Book Review: Your Brain on Art by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross
Review of Claudette Johnson: Presence, The Courtauld Gallery, London
Autumn 2023
Review of Flower Fairies, Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool
Meet the Collectors: Christiana Herringham
Summer 2023
Feature: Liverpool Biennial 2023
Book Review: Art is Magic by Jeremy Deller
Spring 2023
Feature: Making Mischief: Folk Costume in Britain, Compton Verney, Warwickshire
Winter 2022
Artist Interviews for Earth Spells: Artists in the Anthropocene at RAMM, Exeter
Autumn 2022
Preview of Reena Kallat: Common Grounds at Compton Verney, Warwickshire
Preview of Fuseli and the Modern Woman: Fashion, Fantasy, Fetishism at the Courtauld Gallery, London
Book Review: Letters to Gwen John by Celia Paul
Spring 2022
Preview of Ingrid Pollard, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes
Preview of Frances Walker at Aberdeen Art Gallery
Book Review: The Bird. The Great Age of Avian Illustration by Philip Kennedy
Winter 2021
Book Review: Greek Myths. A New Retelling by Charlotte Higgins, with drawings by Chris Ofili
Autumn 2021
Book Review: Illuminating Natural History. The Art and Science of Mark Catesby by Henrietta McBurney
Summer 2021
Spring 2021
Winter 2020
Meet the Collectors: Gwendoline and Margaret Davies
Shaping Futures: A Perfect Partnership
Autumn 2020
Meet the Collectors: Kathleen Garman and Sally Ryan
Summer 2020
Review of Scandal and Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley (BBC iPlayer)
Book Review of Art is a Tyrant: The Unconventional Life of Rosa Bonheur by Catherine Hewitt
Feature: Supporting Islamic Art Expertise
Q: Priscilla Coleman (courtroom artist)
Spring 2020
Preview of Tantra: Enlightenment to Revolution at the British Museum, London
Review of Cai Guo-Qiang: Gunpowder Art at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Book Review of The Art of Looking Up by Catherine McCormack
Peter Hudson: Tate St Ives in Colour
Winter 2019
Autumn 2019
Meet the Collectors: Ellen Sharples
Book Review: Bacon and the Mind: Art, Neuroscience and Psychology
Interview with Madeleine Kennedy
Summer 2019
Spotlight: Stratford-Upon-Avon
Spring 2019
Winter 2018
Feature: Behind the Scenes conserving Artemisia Gentileschi at the National Gallery, London
Autumn 2018
Meet the Collectors: Horace Walpole
Summer 2018
Spring 2018
Meet the Collectors: Jim Ede (Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge)
Book Review: Klimt & Rodin: An Artistic Encounter
Winter 2017
Book Review: The Art of the Erotic
Autumn 2017