National and International
ATE BRITAIN LAST looked at William Hogarth in 2007. The sweeping exhibition, “Hogarth,” examined the 17th and 18thcentury British artist’s innovative, satirical, and subversive brand of painting. The popular show traveled to the Louvre in Paris and the La Caixa in Barcelona. In 2014, Penelope Curtis, the Tate’s former director, led a workshop that was supported by Mark Hallett and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. This workshop gathered scholars from Britain, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Scandinavia, forming a sort of patchwork quilt of European art expertise. There, the circle observed several notions about Hogarth. Among them was the idea that a variety of European artists of
