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Typed draft copies and email correspondence of around 24 articles of 800-3000 word length, by Clare Henry for The Financial Times, January-December 2006. During this period Henry worked between the UK and the USA with the majority of articles featuring exhibitions and events in New York and the USA. Articles also written for The Scotsman and exhibition catalogues. Other paperwork includes handwritten notes and email correspondence.
- 7 Feb (Financial Times) David Smith, Guggenheim, New York
- 27 Feb (Financial Times) Francisco Goya, Frick Collection, New York
- 6 Mar (Financial Times) The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
- Mar (Exhibition catalogue) Julie Spediel, New York
- 21 Mar (Financial Times) The Rockefeller Family, Asia Society, New York
- 3 Apr (Financial Times) Paul Klee, Neue Galerie, New York
- 17 Apr (Financial Times) Pierre-Auguste Renoir, The Phillips Collection, Washington
- May (State UK, Art Line) British Dealers in New York
- 15 Jun (Financial Times) Douglas Gordon, Jackson Pollock, Jean-Etienne Liotard, Nancy Rubin, MoMA, Guggenheim, The Frick Collection, Lincoln Centre, National Portrait Gallery, New York, Washington
- 17 Jun (Financial Times Weekend) Douglas Gordon, MoMA, New York
- 17 Jun (Scotsman magazine) Douglas Gordon, MoMA, New York
- 3 Jul (Financial Times) Raphael, The Metropolitan Museum, New York
- 17 Jul (Financial Times) Jean-Etienne Liotard, The Frick Collection
- 31 Jul (Financial Times) The Fields, Omi International Art Centre, New York
- Aug (Exhibition catalogue) Annette Edgar, Broughton Gallery, Scotland
- 18 Sep (Financial Times) Ambroise Vollard, The Metropolitan Museum, New York
- 2 Oct (Financial Times) Pablo Picasso, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
- 10 Nov (Financial Times) American in Paris, The Metropolitan Museum, New York
- 25 Nov (Financial Times) Brice Marden, MoMA, New York
- 29 Nov (Financial Times) Domenico Tiepolo, The Frick Collection, New York
- 8 Dec (Financial Times) Spanish Painting, El Greco to Picasso, Guggenheim, New York
- 22 Dec (Financial Times) Saul Steinberg, The Morgan, New York
- 28 Dec (Financial Times) Preview of 2007, Jasper Johns, Jeff Wall, Richard Serra, John Latham, Frank Stella, Paul Poiret, National Gallery, Guggenheim, MoMA, The Metropolitan Museum, New York
Articles written in this year which are not present in the archive
- 25 Jan William Packer, Royal Academy, London, Alastair Macaulay
- 14 Mar (Scotsman) Victoria Crowe, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
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Clare Henry FRSA was art critic for The Herald from 1980-2000. For 20 years she covered the Scottish and UK art scene in depth, writing roughly 200 articles a year. With a particular emphasis on Scottish artists, her writing provides profiles, interviews and art news pieces along with critical reviews.
Graduating in 1964 with BA Hons Fine Art from The University of Reading she became a Researcher at the Paul Mellon Foundation for British Art (1968-1970) before taking the position of art reviewer for West End Times (1976-1980). She was also art critic for The Herald (1980-2000) and arts presenter at Scottish TV (1984-1987). She wrote regular features for The Art Newspaper (1986-2003) and contributed to The Guardian, Marxism Today, 20/20 London, Ikebana Ryusei Japan and The Scotsman.
She curated exhibitions in the 1980s and 1990s including 'New Scottish Prints' for Britain Salutes New York, in NYC; London's 'Serpentine Summer Show', 1985; 'Artists at Work', Edinburgh Festival, 1986; 'The Vigorous Imagination' at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art for the Edinburgh Festival, 1987; Critic's Choice London, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1992; Scots in Los Angeles, 1989; Scotland at the Venice Biennale, 1990, Critic's Choice for the RSA Edinburgh, 1994, New Millennium, Chicago and Washington DC, 1999.
She is a founding member of the Council of Management and a former chairman of both The Glasgow Print Studio and Salvo (the Scottish arts lobbying organisation). She served on the Scottish Design Council in the 1980s and on the working party for contemporary art of the National Trust. She was also on the board of Stirling's Smith Art Gallery and Museum and a trustee of the Scottish Sculpture Trust, 1984-1990.
She is also a former member of the British Council Visiting Arts panel, the National Union of Journalists, the Arts Correspondents Group London, Blackburn Printmaking Workshop NYC, and is a current member of the International Association of Art Critics, (AICA UK) and the American Association of Art Critics.
In 2000 she moved to New York where she was art critic for the Financial Times and The New York Sun until 2008. She now writes for various magazines in the UK and the USA and keeps a regular blog which can be found here. She also has a website called The Scottish Art Archive.