Januszczak was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire, to Polish refugees who had arrived in England after the Second World War. After studying history of art at the University of Manchester, Januszczak ...

Van Gogh's Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear is one of his most famous works of art. However, hidden inside the painting is a startling secret, a steamy tale of geishas, brothels, bullfights, broken ...

On one level, I thought they were appalling comments, freighted with colonial snobbery. On another level, and with an intervening year or so to calm down, I have to admire an art critic who is willing ...

Vincent Van Gogh’s painting Self-portrait with Bandaged Ear is frequently taken to be the pitiable proof of the artist’s hopeless derangement, another step along the road to his eventual suicide by ...

The decline of the Turner Prize “has been one of the unhappiest sights of my spell as an art critic”, said Waldemar Januszczak in The Sunday Times. Back in its 1990s “heyday”, Britain’s most ...

It's been a while since the Turner Prize "forced Britain to take an interest in contemporary art", said Waldemar Januszczak in The Sunday Times. In recent years, this "once-fierce" art award has ...