What our critic wants for Christmas is an end to the film-based work loved by trendy galleries such as Tate Modern
Monthly Archives: December 2011
Hockney: The Biography by Christopher Simon Sykes
Everything in David Hockney’s life, from his odd socks to his California idyll, can be traced to his desperate desire to leave drab Bradford
Germans for beginners
The Saatchi’s latest show, Gesamtkunstwerk, is a powerful survey of new Teutonic art — with a respectful nod to the past
The scots are cheered up
A revamp of the gloomy Scottish National Portrait Gallery impresses our critic more than a flawed rehang