Challenging the Past seems to be about the artist’s relationship with the old masters but also studies nature of creativity
Monthly Archives: February 2009
Displaying the Rodchenko and Popova revolution
Tate Modern exhibition tells the story of constructivism, the explosion of creativity in Russia that rerouted aesthetics
The Tate: pompous, arrogant and past it?
The fourth Triennial shows British modern art is clapped out and far from the creativity of Brit Art and the Lisson Gallery I’m an optimist. And I love modern art. It’s been my life, my career, my sustenance. My wife is a modern artist: it’s one of the reasons I love her. My children have […]
The Victorians: Britain Through the Paintings of the Age by Jeremy Paxman
What is it about art that makes every Tom, Dick and Jeremy so certain they have the right to comment upon it and be taken seriously? The BBC’s enthusiasm for clipping unqualified presenters onto the fronts of its arts programmes has already given us David Dimbleby absconding from Question Time to tour Britain in his […]
Charles Saatchi unveils Middle Eastern works
The aggressive futurism to be seen at the Estorick Collection can be contrasted with Paul Day’s banal St Pancras sculpture