He could have been a contender. But the Royal Academy’s Matisse, His Art and His Textiles just goes to prove that this was a man who lost the thread, says Waldemar Januszczak
Monthly Archives: March 2005
Imitate gallery
And now for Damien Hirst’s next trick: taking a photograph and reproducing it. Exactly. Waldemar Januszczak reports
Art: From the rag-and-bone shop to the heart
Titian used crushed beetles; Tomoko Takahashi uses other people’s junk. Are artists really just alchemists at work, asks Waldemar Januszczak