“Gropius,” a new biography by Fiona MacCarthy, aims to rehabilitate one of modernism’s most influential but underappreciated architects.

Subtitled “Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus”, Fiona MacCarthy’s revelatory biography of the figure instrumental in establishing it, the upper-middle-class Walter Gropius (1883-1969), will be a major ...

Last fall, I happened to find myself in Princeton, N.J., with a few hours to kill. Having discovered that the only secondhand bookshop in town had closed, I headed for the Princeton Art Museum. En ...

One of the last debutantes presented to the Queen, Fiona MacCarthy bucked court traditions by carving out a successful career. But others in the class of 58 were even more rebellious, as Maureen ...

Fiona MacCarthy, who has died at 80, was a Sheffield-based writer and curator who interviewed John Lennon and David Hockney, and wrote a book which exposed the British sculptor Eric Gill as a ...

In Walter Gropius: Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus, author Fiona MacCarthy attempts to debunk the myth that the German pioneer of modernist architecture is somehow an unsexy subject for ...

The subject of Fiona MacCarthy’s acute biography, “The Last Pre-Raphaelite’’, Edward Burne Jones (1833-1898) was a painter committed to the ultra-realistic treatment of the details. For ...