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Sir Michael Levey: Art historian and writer who became an energetic and modernising Director of the National Gallery

Sir Michael Levey: Art historian and writer who became an energetic and modernising Director of the National Gallery

Michael Levey, British art historian, dies at 81

Michael Levey, a prolific and wide-ranging art historian who presided over the expansion of the National Gallery in London as its director from 1973 through 1986 and who acquired important paintings by Caravaggio, David and Monet for its collection, died Sunday. He was 81 and lived in Louth in Lincolnshire, England.

The Artist and the Sitter

Art historian Matilda Mitchell discusses the relationship between artist and sitter, with reference to works in the National Galleries' collection.

A New Beauty: the photography of Harold Cazneaux

Writing to the Australian photographic historian and writer Jack Cato in 1952, just a year before he died, Harold Cazneaux, recalled how the 1898 international exhibition of pictorialist photography forever changed him. 'I stood spellbound and inspired,' he told Cato, 'here was a new beauty beyond anything I had dreamed of in terms of the camera.'

Scotland?s ghost of banking meltdown past (Sunday Herald)

After a year of financial reckoning, historian Michael Moss and Sunday Herald business editor Colin Donald show how the 1878 collapse of the City of Glasgow bank has returned to haunt us.

What went on in the museum after hours on Christmas Eve?

At the Plainville Historic Center dolls are part of the holiday display. Town historian and columnist whimsically reflects on what happens after hours at the museum on Christmas Eve.

NASA Celebrates 40 Years Of Documented Earthrise

Forty years ago, the crew of Apollo 8 reached lunar orbit and filmmaker and historian Dr. Christopher Riley was there when it happened.

Gallery Profile: Robynne Hayward

My inspirations are mainly visual, a scene that appeals because of the light or colour, or the way objects in it are composed. But there are also attachments that come from a sense of connection to place and history - such as the Maori pa in the far north of New Zealand, where the defensive terraces, kumera pits and middens from the past are still prominent in the landscape. My favourite photographers change all the time. I work in the Pictures section in Original Materials at the State Library of NSW and this has given me an appreciation of photographs which work as community memories or historical markers. The library has a collection of photographs by John Williams, who I like a lot. He is a historian as well as a photographer.

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