Andrew Graham-Dixon

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Andrew Michael Graham-Dixon (born December 26, 1960) is a British art historian, and broadcaster.

After attending Westminster School, Graham-Dixon read English at Oxford University, graduating in 1981.

Graham-Dixon began work as a reviewer for the weekly Sunday Correspondent, before being promoted to chief art critic of The Independent newspaper until 1998, and as of 2005 is the chief art critic of The Sunday Telegraph. Since 2004, he has also been a contributor to the BBC Two's The Culture Show on a variety of topics.

In 1994, Graham-Dixon won the first prize in the Reportage section in the Montreal International Festival Of Films for a documentary film about Théodore Géricault's painting The Raft of the Medusa. He has since gone on to present several BBC documentary series on art, including A History Of British Art (1996), Renaissance (1999), Caravaggio( 2002)^[1] The Secret of Drawing (2005) and The Art of Eternity (2007). He has also presented programmes on subjects other than art, such as I, Samurai (2006)^[2] for the BBC and 100% English (2006) for Channel 4.

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Howard Hodgkin (1994) Thames & Hudson ISBN 0-50027769-9 (pbk). Revised edition 2001 ISBN 0-50009298-2
John Virtue: new paintings (1995) Arnolfini ISBN 0-90773841-9 ISBN-13: 978-0907738411
Paper Museum: writings about painting, mostly (1996) HarperCollins ISBN 0-00255557-3 A collection of newspaper articles.
A History Of British Art (1996) BBC ISBN 0-56337044-0
Renaissance (1999) BBC ISBN 0-56338396-8
In the Picture: The Year Through Art (2002) Allen Lane ISBN 0-71399675-7 ISBN-13: 978-0713996753 - a collection of articles in the Sunday Telegraph.
Caravaggio (forthcoming) ^[3]