Their bite is still sharp, as a retrospective at Tate Liverpool proves. Waldemar Januszczak feels the teeth of the Chapman brothers
Monthly Archives: December 2006
Grotto fabulous
Banksy is not the only artist to give short shrift to the festive season. God bless ’em, one and all, says Waldemar Januszczak
In the realm of fantasy
He reinvented the calendar and ordered his people to gnaw bones. He is gilding the desert in gold and marble, and the driving test is a questionnaire on his philosophy of life. Waldemar Januszczak infiltrates the world according to the leader of Turkmenistan
Why Lautrec was a giant
We know him mostly as a comic midget. But physically he was no dwarf — and in his achievements, he was as big as Rembrandt, says Waldemar Januszczak
From maverick to one of the herd
Damien Hirst’s private collection elicits a sense of déjà vu. Has he lost his cutting edge, asks Waldemar Januszczak