Charles Darwent is an art critic and author. He contributes regularly to The Guardian, The Art Newspaper and Art Review, and was the chief art critic for the Independent on Sunday from 1999–2013. He appeared on the Netflix series Raiders of the Lost Art from 2014–2016. He is the author of Surrealists in New York (2023), Josef Albers: Life and Work (2018), and Mondrian in London: How British Art Nearly Became Modern (2012).

“[Darwent] paints a portrait of Ozenfant the man, the artist, the cultural emissary that’s quietly illuminating.”—Chloë Ashby, Times (UK)

Charles Darwent is an art critic and author. He contributes regularly to The Guardian, The Art Newspaper and Art Review, and was the chief art critic for the Independent on Sunday from 1999–2013. He appeared on the Netflix series Raiders of the Lost Art from 2014–2016. He is the author of Surrealists in New York (2023), Josef Albers: Life and Work (2018), and Mondrian in London: How British Art Nearly Became Modern (2012).

“[Darwent] paints a portrait of Ozenfant the man, the artist, the cultural emissary that’s quietly illuminating.”—Chloë Ashby, Times (UK)

Charles Darwent is an art critic and author. He contributes regularly to The Guardian, The Art Newspaper and Art Review, and was the chief art critic for the Independent on Sunday from 1999–2013. He appeared on the Netflix series Raiders of the Lost Art from 2014–2016. He is the author of Surrealists in New York (2023), Josef Albers: Life and Work (2018), and Mondrian in London: How British Art Nearly Became Modern (2012).

“[Darwent] paints a portrait of Ozenfant the man, the artist, the cultural emissary that’s quietly illuminating.”—Chloë Ashby, Times (UK)