Michael Prodger is an Assistant Editor at the New Statesman. He is an art historian, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Buckingham, and a former literary editor.

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The mystery of Waterloo's last living soldier
18 June 2015
Past becomes memory.
Cultural Capital
Art rarely floats free of biography - or autobiography, for that matter
28 May 2015
Selfie portraits.
Culture
Grayson Perry’s new house is a dollop of architectural fun
21 May 2015
The Essex Taj Mahal.
Cultural Capital
In a Venice Biennale full of moving stories, the British appear to have nothing to say
14 May 2015
Bridges over troubles waters.
Cultural Capital
A masterful restoration pulls visitors deep into Goya's haunted thoughts
13 March 2015
Private darkness.
Cultural Capital
Britain can’t make it: a Hayward Gallery exhibition struggles to make sense of the past
19 February 2015
Art.
Cultural Capital
Hip to be square: suprematism at the Whitechapel Gallery
29 January 2015
Radical art in E1.
Jan Morris: One last time to Venice
10 December 2014
One last time to Venice.
Cultural Capital
Man in the mirror: Rembrandt: the Late Works at the National Gallery
18 November 2014
Turning away from the light.
Cultural Capital
Beautiful grotesque: the “dark play” of Paula Rego
24 October 2014
Giving terror a face.
Cultural Capital
Howard Hodgkin: “I’ve always hated painting. It’s always been agony”
09 October 2014
Art as luminous as ever.
Cultural Capital
The things they carried: the ingenious props of modern protest
22 August 2014
Guerrilla Girls to Greenham Common.
Cultural Capital
Painting the town rouge: Picasso and Matisse in Paris
04 August 2014
Montmartre’s rickety peak.
How Yorkshire won the yellow jersey
10 July 2014
On the Tour de France.
Cultural Capital
From windmills to modernism: Piet Mondrian’s long journey towards a true style
29 May 2014
From landscapes to cubism.

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