Laura Cumming

Laura Cumming is a British journalist who is the art critic of ''The Observer'' newspaper, a position she has held since 1999. Before that she worked for ''The Guardian'', the ''New Statesman'' and the BBC. In addition to her career in journalism, Cumming has written well-received books on self-portraits in art and the discovery of a lost portrait by Diego Velázquez in 1845. ''The Vanishing Man'' was a ''New York Times'' bestseller and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 2016. Provided by Wikipedia