Andrew Graham-Dixon
Andrew Michael Graham-Dixon (born
December 26 1960) is a
British art historian, and
broadcaster for the
BBC.
After attending
Westminster School, Graham-Dixon read English at
Oxford University, graduating in
1981.
Graham-Dixon began work as a reviewer for the short lived
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 Daily Telegraph. Since
2004, he has been a regular host of
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),
The Secret of Drawing (2005), and
I, Samurai (2006).
*
Howard Hodgkin (1994)
*
Paper Museum (1996)
*
A History Of British Art (1996)
*
Renaissance (1999)
*
In the Picture: The Year Through Art (2002)
* ''Caravaggio (2006)