James Cahill is a British art critic, academic, and author.
Early life Cahill was born in London. He earned a degree in Classics and English at Magdalen College, Oxford, followed by a master's degree in Contemporary Art from the Courtauld Institute. In 2017, he completed a PhD in Classics at Cambridge University. He is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at King's College London.
Career He has written for publications including Apollo, The Burlington Magazine, The London Review of Books and The Times Literary Supplement.
In 2022, his debut novel, Tiepolo Blue, was published. The Guardian called it "a bold debut of psychosexual awakening".
In April 2026, he was a guest on the Off the Shelf podcasthttps://open.spotify.com/episode/6LBGA5D5Vyut5Tmm24RJda?si=YccP6XZXTTWF56RfT7HBkA.
Publications Flying Too Close to the Sun, Phaidon Press, 2018 The Classical Now, Elephant Publishing, 2018, with Michael Squire and Ruth Allen Tiepolo Blue, Sceptre, 2022 The Violet Hour, Sceptre, 2025 The Beverley Hills Housewife, Thames and Hudson, 2026
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