Art Review Power 100: Time To End The Machiavellian Power List
Each October Art Review publishes its Power 100. A list that always reflects the power brokers of the art world,… Read More
23 October 2015
Each October Art Review publishes its Power 100. A list that always reflects the power brokers of the art world,… Read More
23 October 2015
Super architects Caruso St John are enjoying a ton of publicity at the moment, with the dual opening of the… Read More
16 October 2015
Imagine, if you will, the following scene (sepia tint optional): a young student Damien Hirst gazing wide eyed at John… Read More
9 October 2015
With each year that passes the Turner Prize battles doggedly to justify its own existence. It appears to be suffering… Read More
2 October 2015
I met Brian Sewell only once while a student at the Courtauld Institute. As a fellow alumnus, he was attending… Read More
22 September 2015
What I admire about Thursday’s public march led by Anish Kapoor and Ai Weiwei eight miles across London is its… Read More
18 September 2015
Regular readers will know of the special reserve of bile I harbour for one Damien Hirst: the businessman peddling ‘art’… Read More
11 September 2015
It emerged in July that Disneyland Paris is allegedly charging German and British tourists up to 15% more than French… Read More
21 August 2015
So, I was about to launch into thoughtful musings on that inexplicable relationship between artist and muse and how the… Read More
24 July 2015
Click Here to Read: Sexism In Art: And What We Perceive As Acceptable Body Depictions Tormented by lack of critical success?… Read More
17 July 2015
OK, so admittedly Damien Hirst is still very much with us… But what can you say about an artist’s life’s work when… Read More
10 July 2015
What’s the real value of a humble Dollar/Pound? For those champagne swillers who braved a loud and angry protest outside… Read More
3 July 2015
I should stand up for fellow art bitches and applaud this week’s lyst of the most wealthy female artists: were… Read More
26 June 2015
The genre ‘portraiture’ is as open ended as the limitless expanses of landscape, history painting, still lifes, and abstract: yet… Read More
18 June 2015
Morbid question one: if Damien Hirst fell into a vat of formaldehyde tomorrow, how would this affect the monetary value… Read More
12 June 2015
Spot the difference (sorry.. actually not sorry) between Yayoi Kusama and Agnes Martin, the darling of minimalism, whose retrospective at Tate Modern… Read More
5 June 2015
Art in whatever form – painting, theatre, a child’s potato stamp – is the means by which we express externally… Read More
29 May 2015
The mysterious chat noir litters (a pun already? Awesome) art history like so much shed fur; the terribly unsubtle feline companion… Read More
23 May 2015
Writing about the increasingly obsolete Turner Prize is the very definition of shooting fish in a barrel. Waldemar Januszczak has… Read More
14 May 2015
Does fine art still have political teeth? Remember, if you will, such historical examples as Delacroix’s ‘Victory Leading the People’,… Read More
8 May 2015
Given the range of names appearing in Artlyst’s forged artist’s countdown, you would be forgiven for thinking that the measure… Read More
1 May 2015
“Ars longa, vita brevis” should be uttered (and was, repeatedly, ad nauseum by my moustachioed diploma fine art tutor) with a heavy dose of irony.
24 April 2015
Last week Madonna got up on the Tonight Show, hosted by Jimmy Fallon, in a staged and contrived act and… Read More
19 April 2015
Artlyst recently created a list of the most offensive works of art; so what is the difference between this and… Read More
17 April 2015
Do I detect a pattern here? There is an exodus afoot amongst the highest echelons of museum management; in the past twelve months… Read More
10 April 2015
Religious or not, we are all familiar with the spirit of giving, new life and general goodwill associated with decorating… Read More
2 April 2015
The term ‘offence’, in the context of ‘to take offence at’ (as opposed to, an illegal offence or act against… Read More
26 March 2015
There is a strong case to be made that what we recognise as “high” art and laughter are entirely mutually… Read More
19 March 2015
There is an extremely thin line between embodying the tortured soul artiste, the infant terrible, and simply behaving like a… Read More
12 March 2015
Etchings occupy a peculiar mid-point between the grand ‘officialness’ of the painting medium, historically seen as noble – whether oil, watercolour,
6 March 2015
Violence in art is obsolete. Today, what artwork depicting violence still has the power to shock? What purpose does violence… Read More
27 February 2015
From Young British Artist to Old British Bore: many of the YBAs who kick started their careers by putting unashamedly self-obsessed and defiant
20 February 2015