Display Gallery is to present a series of expressionist cloudscapes by photographer Benedict Redgrove.
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INTERVIEW: Hayden Kays: Overdrawn and On the Money
Young British artist Hayden Kays returns this spring with a new body of work.
Continue Reading...Daniel’s Value and Ideas #100: Why Damien Makes Such Good Art
Readers of this column will have noticed that I am the only person in the world who actually likes Damien Hirst despite not making any money from him.
Continue Reading...Daniel’s Value and Ideas #99: Gazing into the Abyss
In his latest exhibition, Gazing Ball Paintings, at Gagosian New York, Koons oversteps the mark of decency and demonstrates that the most horrifying thing about his art is its sincerity.
Continue Reading...Daniel’s Value and Ideas #98: Francis Bacon’s Pound of Flesh
On the 24th anniversary of Francis Bacon’s death, 28th April 2016, the artist’s first definitive catalogue raisonne will be published, including over 100 previously unseen works and missing 4 that remain untraceable.
Continue Reading...Daniel’s Value and Ideas #97: Dirty Words and Wholesome Ideas
If you think about it, you’ll realise you’ve had a funny feeling too. London has felt incomplete, bereft as if part of the furniture is missing but you cannot quite put your finger on what it is or where it has gone.
Continue Reading...Daniel’s Value and Ideas #96: On Good and Bad, Part III
In the fight again relativism and subjectivity in aesthetic judgements, I have been outlining how we might approach objective judgements of value.
Continue Reading...Daniel’s Value and Ideas #95: From Asian Future to Rights Now
One of GFest’s core functions is to remind us that although some of us are privileged to live without fear of state persecution or backward mob rule, not everybody in the world is. Thus the themes of this year’s festival is aptly (Complacent Present)…Fragile Future?
Continue Reading...Daniel’s Value and Ideas #94: Nobody Puts Basquiat in the Corner
The perennial question that dare not speak its name on pain of heresy is this: what, precisely, is it about Basquiat that inspires such adoration and extravagance?
Continue Reading...Daniel’s Value and Ideas #93: On Good and Bad, Part II
The death of Brian Sewell heralded the death of art criticism. Or so I said. It was an inflammatory claim, designed to rile, but there was a grain of anxious serious in it. Sewell was not just a contrarian, he was an astute critic of refined tastes and a conscientious objector.
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