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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...
Turning Silver Into Gold: Michael Joo And Paul Black In Conversation
Michael Joo was kind enough to talk to Paul Black about the fascinating nature of his practice, and the artist's new exhibition Radiohalo, at...
Museum Blockbusters: A Cat In A Mona Lisa Wig Could Have Done Better
The Noordbrabants Museum exhibition of Hieronymous Bosch – one of my favourite painters of bestial grotesque nastiness – is surely the ‘one of the...
Fake Warhol Fake Rothko: Who Are The Losers Here
The issue of fakes is alluring headline fodder: what is it that is so compelling about forged artworks? Once could say it places greater emphasis on...