Laura Cumming
Laura Cumming | |
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Laura Cumming, Hatchards, London, 2023 | |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist and art critic |
| Notable work | The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velázquez (2016); On Chapel Sands: My Mother and Other Missing Persons (2019) |
| Parent(s) | James Cumming and Betty Elston |
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.