Jamie Reid will always be associated with Sex Pistols. But he was a radical artist his whole life.
Category: art
The technology of seeing
The technological pre-history of photography and cinema go back a long way.
Hockney all around
The Hockney ‘experience’. ‘Bigger and Closer’, is like going to a three-dimensional 50-minute retrospective.
Vincent’s third career
So it is possible to learn new things about van Gogh and his legacy.
Redressing statues
It’s amazing what adding some fabric can do to the way we think about our statues and their legacy.
Remembering Atroshenko
On stumbling across some work by someone you used to know on the stairs of a local hospital.
Painting modernity
World War 1 transformed Paul Nash’s painting, from the relatively delicate pre-war landscapes to hard angular representations of the war, notably in his “memorial” painting, ‘The Menin Road’. The war seems to have made a modernist of him.
Quentin and Roald
I’ve always loved Quentin Blake’s illustrations for Roald Dahl’s children’s books. They are the way we see these stories: the … More
English landscape
I am in Cambridge from time to time, and stumbled across the small gallery that Downing College has opened … More
Now’s the time
I collected a small print of Basquiat’s picture Now’s the time from the framers at the weekend. I’d bought it … More