Pure Painting – 100-word Review of Sam Gilliam: Late Paintings
Review of Sam Gilliam Late Paintings exhibition at Pace gallery by Daniel Barnes
In Conversation with Daniel James
Hanna ten Doornkaat x Daniel James: Ezra Maas Nothing is More Real than Nothing, Gallery 46, Whitechapel, 11 June 2022 Daniel and I discussed the new edition of his book, The Unauthorised Biography of Ezra Maas, Hanna’s accompanying exhibition, the difficulties of evading the Maas Foundation, art and value, and taking risks as a writer.…
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News: Artist Talk and Gallery Tour
Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London Bridge, 14.05.22 On Saturday 14 May, as part of London Gallery Weekend, I will be leading a gallery tour and talking with artists Celina Teague and Richard Stone about their parallel exhibitions at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery. The three of us will walk through the gallery and discuss common themes and points…
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Damien Hirst: Relics and Fly Paintings
FAD Magazine, 2021 Brooding, silent, inert, the works in this exhibition are far beyond death, having passed through rigor mortis, decomposition and mumification to emerge on the other side as totems to an artist’s fascination with the grim and inescapable fact of mortality. More of the same, you might say. And how wrong you would…
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We Need to Talk about Damien
an extract from The Value Industry, chapter V Damien Hirst is one of the great artists of the 20th Century, but the value industry has seen to it that hardly anyone would concede it. The very mythology that drove Hirst’s prices up has been his downfall: the idea of the superstar artist, born into nothing, growing…
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