Verity Babbs

Verity Babbs is a British art historian, writer, presenter, and comedian. She studied History of Art at the University of Oxford and writes regularly for outlets like Artnet News and the Guardian. Verity is the founder and host of Art Laughs, a live comedy series about art that has performed at the National Gallery, Royal Museums Greenwich and Edinburgh Fringe. She also presented the weekly Arts & Culture Show on Voice FM. In 2025 her book The History of Art in One Sentence was published by Bloomsbury, distilling 50 art movements into bite‑sized, humorous insights.