Tim Marlow
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BBC
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's more popular Rolf on Art
Rolf on Art
Rolf on Art is a British Art television series made by the BBC. It was hosted by Rolf Harris, the Australian television presenter. The series began in 2001, and the most recent episode was made in 2007...
, he looks at works and talks about them critically, rather than getting hands on and imitating the style.
Marlow was born in Long Eaton
Long Eaton
Long Eaton is a town in Derbyshire, England. It lies just north of the River Trent about southwest of Nottingham and is part of the Nottingham Urban Area...
, Derbyshire
Derbyshire
Derbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England. A substantial portion of the Peak District National Park lies within Derbyshire. The northern part of Derbyshire overlaps with the Pennines, a famous chain of hills and mountains. The county contains within its boundary of approx...
, England
England
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, and grew up in Chesterfield. He holds a Master's degree
Master of Arts (postgraduate)
A Master of Arts from the Latin Magister Artium, is a type of Master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The M.A. is usually contrasted with the M.S. or M.Sc. degrees...
from the Courtauld Institute of Art
Courtauld Institute of Art
The Courtauld Institute of Art is a self-governing college of the University of London specialising in the study of the history of art. The Courtauld is one of the premier centres for the teaching of art history in the world; it was the only History of Art department in the UK to be awarded a top...
and has presented numerous art programmes on UK television including studies of J. M. W. Turner
J. M. W. Turner
Joseph Mallord William Turner RA was an English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker. Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, but is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting...
, John Constable
John Constable
John Constable was an English Romantic painter. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home—now known as "Constable Country"—which he invested with an intensity of affection...
, living artists, the Tate Modern
Tate Modern
Tate Modern is a modern art gallery located in London, England. It is Britain's national gallery of international modern art and forms part of the Tate group . It is the most-visited modern art gallery in the world, with around 4.7 million visitors per year...
, the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, Raphael
Raphael
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino , better known simply as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur...
, etc. He has written about art and culture for The Times
The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...
, The Guardian
The Guardian
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, The Independent on Sunday, Arena, Art Monthly, Blueprint and many other newspapers and periodicals. In 1993, he founded Tate: The Art Magazine. From 1991 to 1998, he presented BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the...
's arts programme Kaleidoscope, for which he won a Sony
Sony
, commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues....
Award. Marlow also presented the weekly BBC World Service cultural discussion programme Culture Shock
Culture Shock (BBC World Service)
Culture Shock was a weekly BBC World Service radio programme, hosted by Tim Marlow. The programme ran from 2005-2008.-Format:The programme aimed to examine "the latest cultural trends from around the world, social or technological developments which are reflecting and shaping the way we live: what...
from 2002-2008.
Marlow is Director of Exhibitions at White Cube
White Cube
White Cube is a contemporary art gallery designed by MRJ Rundell & Associates in Hoxton Square in the East End of London Mason's Yard, in central London and White Cube Bermondsey in South East London...
in London
London
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. His books and monographs include studies of the French sculptor Auguste Rodin
Auguste Rodin
François-Auguste-René Rodin , known as Auguste Rodin , was a French sculptor. Although Rodin is generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture, he did not set out to rebel against the past...
and the Austrian expressionist painter Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele was an Austrian painter. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. His work is noted for its intensity, and the many self-portraits the artist produced...
, and a survey of great artists published by Faber.
He is visiting lecturer at Winchester School of Art
Winchester School of Art
Winchester School of Art is the art school of the University of Southampton, situated 10 miles north of Southampton in the city of Winchester near the south coast of England.- Overview :...
. He is an examiner on the Sculpture MA and former Creative Director of Sculpture at Goodwood
Cass Sculpture Foundation
The Cass Sculpture Foundation is a charity and outdoor sculpture park based in Goodwood in West Sussex, England.- Founding and funding :Established by Wilfred Cass and Jeannette Cass in 1992, the Foundation's key objective is to enhance the general public's enjoyment and appreciation of the...
.
He is married to television producer Tanya Hudson. They live in East London. He has two nephews Freddy and Harry.
Publications
- The Nude in Art
- Constable
- The Impressionists, by Tim Marlow (Paperback)
- Grenville Davey by Tim Marlow, James Roberts, and Isabelle Rein Harez (Hardcover - Mar 1994)
- Schiele by Tim Marlow (Paperback - Sep 1999)
- Anthony Caro: The Cascades Sculptures by A. Caro and Tim Marlow (Paperback - Aug 1993)
- Rodin by Tim Marlow (Hardcover - Jul 1995)
- David Mach (Art & Design Monographs) by Paul Bonaventura and Tim Marlow (Paperback - 1 Sep 1995)
- The Great Artists: From Giotto to Turner by Phil Grabsky and Tim Marlow (Hardcover - 1 Jan 2002)
- David Mach by Victor De Circasia, Paul Bonaventura, and Tim Marlow (Paperback - April 2002)
Select published articles
- Where it was hip to drip, Independent, (London), 21 Feb 1999 by Tim Marlow
- Schnabel: still smashing after all these years, Independent, (London), 10 Jan 1999 by Tim Marlow
- British art: the whole story in eight parts, Independent, (London), 16 Apr 2000 by Tim Marlow
- The Listener: The geeks who went global, Independent, (London), 29 Oct 2000 by Tim Marlow
- Visual Art: East meets West in new cultural revolution, Independent, (London), 19 Nov 2000 by Tim Marlow
- Obituary: Bryan Robertson, Independent, (London), 26 Nov 2002 by Tim Marlow
- American beauty...Jackson Pollock and Edward Hopper,Evening Standard (London), 13 May 2004 by Tim Marlow
- Hail the mother of all madonnas, Raphael: from Urbino to Rome, Independent on Sunday, Oct 31, 2004 by Tim Marlow
- This Year I Loved, Independent on Sunday, Dec 26, 2004
Series
- Great Artists with Tim Marlow
- Easter in Art
- Judgement Day: Images of Heaven & Hell
- The Nude
- Marlow Meets...
One-offs
- Tim Marlow with... Gilbert & George
- Tim Marlow on... Hogarth with Ian Hislop
- Tim Marlow on... Holbein in England
- Tim Marlow on... Carsten Holler at Tate Modern
- Tim Marlow on... Velazquez
- Tim Marlow on... Modern Art OxfordModern Art OxfordModern Art Oxford is an art gallery established in 1965 in Oxford, England. From 1965 to 2002, it was called The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford.-Foundation:...
- Tim Marlow on... Constable: the Great Landscapes
- Tim Marlow on... Highlights of the new Tate Modern
- Tim Marlow on... Kandinsky: the to path to abstraction
- Tim Marlow on... Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris
- Tim Marlow on... Rubens: a Master in the Making
- Tim Marlow on... Degas, Sickert & Toulouse-Lautrec
- Tim Marlow on... the British Art ShowBritish Art ShowThe British Art Show is a major survey exhibition organised every five years to showcase contemporary British Art. The current exhibition in the series, referred to as BAS6, is touring a number of major cities within England in 2005 and 2006. Each time it is organised, the show tours to three UK...
- Tim Marlow on... Stubbs & the Horse
- Tim Marlow on... Caravaggio: the Final Years
- Tim Marlow on... the Museum of Modern ArtMuseum of Modern ArtThe Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...
, New York - Tim Marlow on... The National Gallery's Grand Tour
- Venice Biennale 2001
- High Five