Turner didn’t merely wish to better his early idol, Claude, he wanted to blast his work out of the water, says our art critic
Monthly Archives: March 2012
Why Damien’s a small fish in Germany
There’s no British art at the hugely important Kassel Documenta, even if the public loves it. Our art critic knows who to blame
It speaks to our inner geek
From his own bedroom clutter to a cross-dressing wrestler, Jeremy Deller turns his nerdy preoccupations into fine art
Pulling potty ideas out of the blue
Alighiero Boetti fancied himself as a shaman. This Tate show fails to turn our critic into a follower