The aggressive futurism to be seen at the Estorick Collection can be contrasted with Paul Day’s banal St Pancras sculpture
Monthly Archives: January 2009
Lucky Kunst: The Rise and Fall of Young British Art by Gregor Muir
There are various reasons why nobody has previously written a history of that powerful explosion of creativity that shook British art in the 1990s and whose perpetrators have been saddled with the unusually ugly sobriquet of the Young British Artists, or, as the time-poor were apt to condense it, the YBAs. To this day, two […]
Time for a cull in the art world
The art world is plunging, along with the rest of the economy. Hooray
Unmissable shows of 2009
The galleries of Britain – and further afield – are serving up some tasty exhibitions this year. Our correspondent picks the best, from modern architects to Aztec emperors