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Jeff Koons: Showing The Love For Irony And Pseudo Philosophical Claptrap
The loads of people who know me as a boring old traditionalist (Turner Prize?! Yah boo hiss!) are always surprised when I say I actually love Jeff...
Turner Prize 2016 The Artbytch Verdict Is Out And WTF
This week I visited the new George Shaw exhibition at the National Gallery; the result of two years’ worth of study and response to its permanent...
V&A’s Bizarre Decision To Ban All Sketching At Undressed Is Pants
I know I'm a little late to the party here but several people have been asking me what I make of the V&A's bizarre decision to ban all sketching...
Francis Bacon: Alice Herrick And Clive Jennings Discuss The Ravarino Drawings
The Herrick Gallery, London is currently presenting a selection of drawings purportedly by the great British painter Francis Bacon, lent by...
Gavin Nolan Sixty Second Interview With Artlyst’s Paul Carter Robinson
Gavin Nolan’s latest exhibition at Charlie Smith London consists of recent paintings depicting versions of historical figures. The show runs from...
Microsoft Rembrandt vs Microsoft Republican Candidate In Bad Toupee
The news of a new Rembrandt is bound to set tongues wagging. And any preconceived doubts about its authenticity are immediately allayed: it looks...
Tracey Emin’s Unintentionally Unironic Zoolander-style Who Am I Quest
When learning of Tracey Emin’s decision to marry a rock of course the first thing the less charitable parts of our minds would be thinking will be...
A Restoration: Elizabeth Price And Paul Black In Conversation
Paul Black has visited the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford to meet Turner Prize, and 2013 Contemporary Art Society Award winner Elizabeth Price, and view...
R. Crumb vs Allen Jones What A Lovely Pear And Other Double Entendres
A couple of years ago, for this very publication, I lambasted the Royal Academy for its Allen Jones retrospective, which applauded a...
Hashtag-Ironic: Banksy Geo-profiling Study A Big Fat Waste Of Funding
Did Shakespeare really write all those plays? I find myself not even caring that much whether he did, or was aided, or – as some who like to...
Is Loving Vincent Yet Another Lousy Filmic Portrayal Of A Dead Artist?
I'm apprehensive of the announcement by Oscar winning Breakthru Animation studios of “the world’s first feature-length painted animation,” 'Loving...
David Hockney: Brimming With Talent But Such A Miserable Git
I would love to say I've met David Hockney: I admire him enormously as a draughtsman, especially innumerable portraits capturing likeness with...