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, ...

Drawing by Selçuk Demirel accompanying the text in John Berger's Cataract (2023) (all images courtesy Notting Hill Editions) Then the theorist who had devoted much of his career to mastering the ...

John Berger, the English Marxist critic who has written about painting and sculpture since the Fifties, has of late enlarged his purview to include photography. To a large extent, his growing interest ...

The author’s copy of John Berger’s Selected Essays, edited by Geoff Dyer (photo by the author for Hyperallergic) “Reality is not a given: it has to be continually sought out, held — I am tempted to ...

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 ...