Through another one of the wonders of the Internet, it was drawn to my attention that the 2012 BP Portrait Award winner Aleah Chapin is having a show in London at Flowers Cork Street Gallery. Having the ability to view Chapin’s work as the artist intended is very different from looking at her work in…

To promote the exhibition Rembrandt: The Late Works at the National Gallery, BBC2 broadcast the programme Rankin Shoots Rembrandt last Friday in which the photographer recreates the painter’s work. In the programme, Rankin describes the level of detail in Rembrandt’s work – detail which some artists would airbrush out to flatter the sitter. In fact, the…