| Andrew Graham-Dixon | |
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| Born | 26 December 1960 |
| Alma mater | Courtauld Institute of Art |
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| http://www.andrewgrahamdixon.com/ | |
Andrew Michael Graham-Dixon (born 26 December 1960) is a British art historian and broadcaster.
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Graham-Dixon was educated at the independent Westminster School and at Christ Church at the University of Oxford, where he read English. He graduated in 1981, before pursuing doctoral studies at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London.
Graham-Dixon began work as a reviewer for the weekly Sunday Correspondent, before becoming the chief art critic of The Independent newspaper where he remained 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 subjects.
In 1992, Graham-Dixon won the first prize in the Reportage section in the Montreal World Film Festival 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),[2] The Battle for British Art (2007),[3] The Art of Eternity (2007),[4] The Art of Spain (2008)[5], The Art of Russia (2009) and "The Art of Germany (2010).
He has also presented programmes on subjects other than art, such as I, Samurai (2006)[6] and The Real Casino Royale for the BBC and 100% English (2006) for Channel 4. In 2010, he interviewed John Lydon for a Culture Show special about Public Image Limited.[7]
Graham-Dixon also wrote and presented the BBC documentary Who Killed Caravaggio? , broadcast on BBC 4 in 2010. The same year, his biography of Caravaggio was published as Caravaggio: A Life Sacred And Profane.
He was an early supporter of the later-to-be YBA artists, in 1990 he wrote:
Goldsmiths' graduates are unembarrassed about promoting themselves and their work: some of the most striking exhibitions in London over the past few months—"The East Country Yard Show", or "Gambler", both staged in docklands—have been independently organized and funded by Goldsmiths' graduates as showcases for their work. This has given them a reputation for pushiness, yet it should also be said that in terms of ambition, attention to display and sheer bravado there has been little to match such shows in the country's established contemporary art institutions. They were far superior, for instance, to any of the contemporary art shows that have been staged by the Liverpool Tate in its own multi-million-pound dockland site.[8]
Graham-Dixon is son of the barrister Anthony Graham-Dixon and Suzanne "Sue" (née Villar 1931–2010), a publicist for music and opera companies.[9] Graham-Dixon is married, with three children; he lives in London.
| Year | Title | Notes |
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| 1992 | The Billboard Project | |
| 1992 | The Raft of the Medusa | First Prize in the Reportage Section of the Montreal International Film and Television Festival |
| 1996 | A History of British Art | Six-part series Nominated for BAFTA and RTS awards |
| 1996 | Hogarth's Progress | |
| 1999 | Renaissance | Six-part series Nominated for RTS award |
| 2001 | Art That Shook the World | Series 1 episode 1 "Monet's Impression Sunrise" |
| 2002 | Secret Lives of the Artists | Three-part series on Vasari |
| 2002 | The Elgin Marbles | Drama-documentary on the Elgin Marbles |
| 2003 | 1000 Ways of Getting Drunk in England | |
| 2004–present | The Culture Show | |
| 2005 | The Secret of Drawing | Four-part series |
| 2006 | I, Samurai | |
| 2006 | The Real Casino Royale | |
| 2006 | 100% English | |
| 2007 | The Battle for British Art | |
| 2007 | The Art of Eternity | Three-part series on Christian art Long-listed for Grierson Award |
| 2008 | The Art of Spain | Three-part series |
| 2008 | Art of Italy | Three-part series |
| 2009 | Art of Russia | Three-part series |
| 2010 | Art of Germany | Three-part series |
| 2011 | Treasures of Heaven[10] | Documentary about the British Museum exhibition on relics and reliquaries |
| 2011 | I Never Tell Anybody Anything: The Life and Art of Edward Burra | Documentary |
| 2011 | Art of America | Three-part series |
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