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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 historical and artistic investigation into the relationship between art and the rights of marginalized groups—particularly women and the LGBT+ community—reveals how creative language has always ...