Tim Marlow


Timothy John Marlow is a British writer, broadcaster and art historian who is the Director and Chief Executive of the Design Museum, London. Prior to this role, he was the Artistic Director of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. He has lectured on art and culture in over 40 countries.
He has written and presented over 100 documentaries for radio and television. Before moving to the Royal Academy, he was the Director of Exhibitions at White Cube for over ten years. In 2019, he was appointed as the new chief executive and director of London's Design Museum.

Early life and education

Marlow was born in Long Eaton in Derbyshire, England and grew up in Chesterfield.
Marlow is a fan of football side Chelsea FC, regularly attending matches at Stamford Bridge with his son, a nephew or brother.
He was educated at Denstone College, a boarding independent school for boys, in the village of Denstone in Staffordshire in central England and at the Courtauld Institute of Art, from which he gained a Master's degree.

Career

Marlow has presented numerous art programmes on UK television including studies of J. M. W. Turner for the BBC, Great Art for ITV, Great Artists with Tim Marlow, The Nude in Art with Tim Marlow, living artists, The Impressionists with Tim Marlow, the Tate Modern, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, Raphael, etc. He has written about art and culture for The Times, The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday, Arena, Art Monthly, Blueprint and many other newspapers and periodicals. In 1993, he founded Tate: The Art Magazine. From 1991 to 1998, he presented BBC Radio 4's arts programme Kaleidoscope, for which he won a Sony Award. Marlow also presented the weekly BBC World Service cultural discussion programme Culture Shock from 2002-2008.
From 2014 until 2019, Marlow served as the Artistic Director of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Following a staffing shake-up in 2014, he also oversaw the RA's Collections, Learning, Publishing and Architecture departments. During his time at the RA, he was a central figure in preparations for events accompanying its 250th anniversary celebrations, coinciding with the completion of a major building project to expand the institution's exhibition spaces and link its two historic buildings.
His books and monographs include studies of the French sculptor Auguste Rodin, the Austrian expressionist painter Egon Schiele and a survey of great artists published by Faber and Faber. He is visiting lecturer at Winchester School of Art. He is an examiner on the Sculpture MA and former creative director of sculpture at Goodwood.
Marlow was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to the arts.

Publications

Publications

  • Rodin. 1995. Schiele. 1999.

Publications (co-author)

Grenville Davey 1994. Marlow, James Roberts, and Isabelle Rein Harez.Anthony Caro: The Cascades Sculptures. 1993. A. Caro and Marlow.David Mach. Art & Design Monographs. 1995. Paul Bonaventura and Marlow.The Great Artists: From Giotto to Turner. 2002. Phil Grabsky and Marlow.David Mach. 2002. Victor De Circasia, Paul Bonaventura, and Marlow.

Television programmes

Series

Great Art Series One, Seventh Art Productions, commissioned by ITVGreat Art Series Two, Seventh Art Productions, commissioned by ITVGreat Artists with Tim Marlow ''– Constable, Seventh Art Productions, directed by Phil Grabsky, Ben Harding, and Andrew HuttonEaster in ArtJudgement Day: Images of Heaven & HellThe Nude in Art with Tim Marlow, directed by Phil GrabskyThe Impressionists with Tim Marlow, directed by Phil GrabskyMarlow Meets …The Art of the Portrait''

One-offs

Tim Marlow with… Gilbert & GeorgeTim Marlow on… Hogarth with Ian HislopTim Marlow on… Holbein in EnglandTim Marlow on… Carsten Holler at Tate ModernTim Marlow on… VelazquezTim Marlow on… Modern Art OxfordTim Marlow on… Constable: the Great LandscapesTim Marlow on… Highlights of the new Tate ModernTim Marlow on… Kandinsky: the Path to AbstractionTim Marlow on… Henri Rousseau: Jungles in ParisTim Marlow on… Rubens: a Master in the MakingTim Marlow on… Degas, Sickert & Toulouse-LautrecTim Marlow on… the British Art ShowTim Marlow on… Stubbs & the HorseTim Marlow on… Caravaggio: the Final YearsTim Marlow on… the Museum of Modern Art, New YorkTim Marlow on… The National Gallery's Grand TourTim Marlow on… David HockneyVenice Biennale 2001
  • ''High Five''