Stuck Inn VII: Damien Hirst the Excellent Painter
Damien Hirst has exhibited a series of remarkable paintings. They are remarkable for their depth and achievement, remarkable because Hirst, the hitherto superficial arch-conceptualist, has done them, and remarkable because they have been unanimously trashed by every critic in town. The show, No Love Lost, at the Wallace Collection in London, is a spiritual odyssey, which starts with Floating Skull, the simple depiction of an isolated skull, the dome illuminated and the mouth lost in the blackness in which it floats. Hirst has likened this to a lonely planet, and, in reproduction, that is exactly how it appears.
Charles Thomson reviews Damien Hirst‘s new exhibition.
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The late edition: Brian Eno on the death of uncool (via @nyrbclassics) & The Complete Review on Roberto Bolaño‘s Last Interview & Ridley Scott to remake David Peace‘s Red Riding trilogy for the big screen & Alasdair Gray is launching his Gray Play Book at the Traverse Theatre, 6 December (free copy of the book […]
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Today’s quick lit [& alt.cult] links from around the web: In praise of Wilkie Collins & Britain’s first fully documented problem teenager? The English opium eater, Thomas De Quincey & Doctor Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of of the new Musick & Why J. Robert Lennon wants a early-70s mass-market retro paperback cover revival & Micro-Pages, an […]