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Letter from London
Letter from London: See you later, contemporary art curator!
Letter from London
Letter from London: See you later, contemporary art curator!
Pity the poor curator, scapegoat of the contemporary art sceptic. It’s hard not to feel at least a little sorry for Nicholas Bourriaud, curator of Tate Britain’s Altermodern, who has …
Letter from London
Letter from London: The sound of two hands being rubbed together
Letter from London
Letter from London: The sound of two hands being rubbed together
Schadenfreude is so central to how the art world functions that it’s no surprise to hear the sound of two hands rubbing together when it comes to talk of how the economic …
Letter from London
Letter from London: War(hol)! What is he good for?
Letter from London
Letter from London: War(hol)! What is he good for?
While the prospect of yet another Andy Warhol exhibition will be met by most gallery-goers with an indifferent shrug, Other Voices, Other Rooms, the new show at the Hayward Gallery, attempts to …
Letter from London
Letter from London: God Save McQueen!
Letter from London
Letter from London: God Save McQueen!
British artist Steve McQueen’s current feature film, Hunger, has received pretty much universally positive reviews. Tracing the last six weeks of the life of Bobby Sands, the IRA hunger striker imprisoned in …
Letter from London
Letter from London: The Turbine Hall
Letter from London
Letter from London: The Turbine Hall
Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall commissions have set a certain standard for scale in art making at a time when many artists have retreated from the big, brash statement towards the self-effacing, the …
Letter from London
Letter from London: The Contemporary Portrait
Letter from London
Letter from London: The Contemporary Portrait
It might seem a bit old-fashioned to bemoan the demise of the portrait tradition in contemporary art, but looking at a new show of Renaissance portraits, and having read a short …
Letter from London
Letter from London: Serra and Irwin
Letter from London
Letter from London: Serra and Irwin
Amid the noise and anxiety of the art fairs (read my review of Scope here), two significant exhibitions by major US artists have opened simultaneously in London: Richard Serra at Gagosian and Robert Irwin at …
Letter from London
Letter From London: Protest Too Much
Letter from London
Letter From London: Protest Too Much
Whichever candidate succeeds this November, there will be a discernible effect in art. The last eight years have seen a resurgence of politically motivated art comparable to that produced during and …
Letter from London
Letter from London: Art During Wartime
Letter from London
Letter from London: Art During Wartime
All the talk around the potential sale of two of the most important paintings in British collections (Titian’s Diana and Actaeon and Diana and Callisto) has generated more interest than usual in …
Letter from London
Letter from London: Hirst Among Equals
Letter from London
Letter from London: Hirst Among Equals
Art gets into the national news in the UK in four ways. One: a publically funded institution decides to purchase something of apparent worthlessness (a ‘pile of bricks,’ a can of poo) …
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