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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...
Damien Hirst: Another Basement Conversion In Hampstead And Other Tales
I‘ve spent many a year working in Knightsbridge and Belgravia, and the tell-tale signs of a cellar dig out – blocked off scaffolding with conveyor...
Oscars Row Highlights The Scarcity Of Successful Black Visual Artists
Last week we had Saatchi falsely bending to women artists, this week with the Oscars furore we look at another overlooked section of the population:...
Champagne Life: Let’s Pop A Cork And Celebrate Feminism
There’s something not quite right about the latest show at the Saatchi Gallery. Champagne Life is so named after one of featured artist, Julia...
Beyond The Valley Of Caravaggio And Other Exhibitions To Bytch About
Happy New Year, bytches. Late in 2014 I began salivating over the announcement of the National Gallery’s autumn blockbuster for 2015 featuring no...
A Year Of Blatant Art Consumerism Our 12 Days Of Christmas
On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me: A partridge in an Ai Weiwei Tree This year has been a sort of ‘homecoming’ for Ai Weiwei:...