David Hockney is undoubtedly one of the most important of contemporary artists; all the more so because, like that other contemporary great, Gerhardt Richter, he hasn’t been seduced into the ever increasingly ridiculous nonsense that goes under the rubric of contemporary ‘conceptual art’. His latest exhibit at the Royal Academy in London is focused on [...]
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Lemn Sissay at the Royal Academy in London
Lemn Sissay’s performance video of his poem WHAT IF? was, for me, one of the highlights of the Royal Academy’s current exhibit entitled EARTH – Art of a Changing World. The exhibit “sets out to consider the impact of climate change, and our transition to a new world, on the practice of a broad range [...]
