This week sees the opening of a fascinating new exhibition at Sheffield’s Millennium Gallery that focuses on the connections between two 19th century British artists and a 20th century German ...

I was just thinking that Ruskin had fallen into an irrevocable tangle of madness, when, on page 464, he told a vivid, economical and well-turned story of his dog, Wisie. Whether it was retrieved ...

And in “Unto This Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin”—the hypnotically potent (though flawed) exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art marking the bicentennial of his birth—we see ...

JOHN RUSKIN, the 19th century art critic, social, political and economical commentator and environmentalist, is perhaps best known these days for the trade union college named after him in Oxford.

What John Ruskin noticed 144 years ago wasn’t the climate-change phenomenon the world knows today, but his words were nevertheless a prophetic meditation on the urgency of investigating and ...

John Ruskin celebrates the 200th anniversary of his birth next month, and if you’re one of the millions who know that the great Victorian critic and polymath is still massively important, but ...

Ruskin who lived from 1819 to 1900 and had deep ties to the Lake District, was a writer, art historian, art critic, and draughtsman. He was known for his published work on a variety of subjects ...