Tim Marlow

Tim Marlow (born 1963) is a British writer, broadcaster and art historian. He is best known for his regular feature on Channel Five - Tim Marlow on..., an occasional series in which he looks at current art exhibitions. He has also had several other art programs, radio programs and publications. Unlike the BBC's more popular Rolf on Art, he looks at works and talks about them critically, rather than getting hands on and imitating the style.

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Early life

Marlow was born in Long Eaton, Derbyshire, England, and grew up in Chesterfield.[1]

Education

Marlow was educated at Denstone College, a boarding independent school for boys (now co-educational), in the village of Denstone in Staffordshire in Central England, and at the Courtauld Institute of Art, from which he gained a Master's degree.[2]

Life and career

Marlow has presented numerous art programmes on UK television including studies of J. M. W. Turner, John Constable, living artists, the Tate Modern, the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art in New York, Raphael, etc. He has written about art and culture for The Times, The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday, Arena, Art Monthly, Blueprint and many other newspapers and periodicals. [3] In 1993, he founded Tate: The Art Magazine.[3] From 1991 to 1998, he presented BBC Radio 4's arts programme Kaleidoscope, for which he won a Sony Award.[3] Marlow also presented the weekly BBC World Service cultural discussion programme Culture Shock from 2002-2008.[4]

Marlow is Director of Exhibitions at White Cube in London. [3] His books and monographs include studies of the French sculptor Auguste Rodin and the Austrian expressionist painter Egon Schiele, and a survey of great artists published by Faber.[3]

He is visiting lecturer at Winchester School of Art. He is an examiner on the Sculpture MA and former Creative Director of Sculpture at Goodwood.[5]

He is married to television producer Tanya Hudson. They live in East London. He has two nephews Freddy and Harry.

Publications

Select published articles

Television programs

Series

One-offs

References

  1. ^ "5 Minutes with... Tim Marlow" Talk Talk.co.uk. Retrieved 6 May 2010.
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  3. ^ a b c d e BBC Newsnight Review Tim Marlow
  4. ^ US Financial Times
  5. ^ Tim Marlow

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