Nine years ago today, the British writer and critic John Berger died. In 2026, we are celebrating the centenary of his birth as one of the most original, committed and influential intellectuals of the ...

When he was a teenager, the artist Yves Berger played frequent ping pong games with his father, the art critic and essayist John Berger, in the hayloft of their home. John was in his 60s at the time, ...

A British art critic, Marxist intellectual and prodigious author whose pioneering 1972 book and the BBC series it spawned, "Ways of Seeing," ushered in a political perspective to art criticism has ...

Principal Fellow (Hon), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, The University of Melbourne I still remember the shock when I first ...

Why did you want to discuss Berger? I think John Berger was one of the great voices bridging the 20th and 21st centuries. He wrote about art and politics, but he also wrote about farmers and rural ...

The author of Ways of Seeing had a profound impact on generations of artists, critics, historians, curators, and art lovers. He was born in Stoke Newington, north London. His father was a Hungarian ...