The Renaissance master was boundlessly ambitious and intimidatingly energetic, charming, good-looking, diplomatic, and utterly opportunistic.
Michael Glover
Michael Glover is a Sheffield-born, Cambridge-educated, London-based poet and art critic, and poetry editor of The Tablet. He has written regularly for the Independent, the Times, the Financial Times, the New Statesman and the Economist. He has also been a London correspondent for ARTNews, New York. His latest books are: Late Days (2018), Hypothetical May Morning (2018), Neo Rauch (2019), The Book of Extremities (2019), What You Do With Days (2019) and John Ruskin: a dictionary (2019).
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A Century of the Artist’s Studio Is a Peek Into the Artist’s Mind
The studio is a place of self-mirroring, self-haunting, a space where the artist plays out the day-to-day reality of the fantasy of being an artist.
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A Lesson in Bad Manners From an Art Provocateur
Bad Manners is thoroughly and unmistakably an endeavor of one-time art world provocateur Jake Chapman.
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In the Work of Ai Weiwei, Biography Supersedes Art
Perhaps Ai is untouchable. If that is the case, where were we left when judging his new art?
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The Beastliness of Bacon
Bacon was obsessed by animals lifelong. Rawness. Beastliness. Fearsomeness. The way they lived. The way they died. The way they preyed upon each other.
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What Is the Future of Monuments?
Testament at Goldsmiths College asks: Can any monument be removed of its tarnish?
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How Dürer’s Travels Reveal His Voracious Appetite for Art
Albrecht Dürer always wanted to move on, to be somewhere else.
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The Neglected Afterlife of the Great Georges Braque
Braque’s paintings speak of self-containment, of a quietly impassioned, ongoing dedication to the task at hand.
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The Great Painter of London’s Mayhem
Hogarth and his contemporaries agreed that human life was a stinking and dirty business once you had skimmed the froth off the top.
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What Constable Sacrificed for His Artistic Success
Sentimentality would creep into the artist’s late evocations of remembered childhood scenes, as would idealization.
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The Wild Side of Poussin
Quite a bit of wildness hides beneath the artist’s cloak of scholarship and respectability.
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Leon Kossoff’s Art of Darkness and Light
I soon discovered that this gentle, wary, vulnerable man of 75 possessed a will of steel.