Alastair Sooke is a journalist and broadcaster. Art critic of The Daily Telegraph and a columnist for BBC.com, he has written and presented many documentaries on television and radio for the BBC, and is the author of three books about art published by Penguin. He joined the Telegraph as a trainee in 2003, aged 21, and reported regularly for BBC Two’s The Culture Show between 2009 and 2014. In 2016 he sat on the British Council’s Venice Biennale Selection Committee and was a judge for the inaugural Hepworth Prize for Sculpture. He currently serves on the Courtauld Association Committee and on the advisory board of the Classical Art Research Centre at the University of Oxford. Born in 1981, he was educated at Westminster School, where he was a Queen’s Scholar, at Christ Church, Oxford, and at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. He lives in London with his family.
Alastair Sooke is a journalist and broadcaster. Art critic of The Daily Telegraph and a columnist for BBC.com, he has written and presented many documentaries on television and radio for the BBC, and is the author of three books about art published by Penguin. He joined the Telegraph as a trainee in 2003, aged 21, and reported regularly for BBC Two’s The Culture Show between 2009 and 2014. In 2016 he sat on the British Council’s Venice Biennale Selection Committee and was a judge for the inaugural Hepworth Prize for Sculpture. He currently serves on the Courtauld Association Committee and on the advisory board of the Classical Art Research Centre at the University of Oxford. Born in 1981, he was educated at Westminster School, where he was a Queen’s Scholar, at Christ Church, Oxford, and at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. He lives in London with his family.