Cecily Brown at Modern Art Oxford

Cecily Brown at Modern Art Oxford

‘Almost every time a painting show happens, or a young painter makes a splash – in the market as much as on a canvas – someone crows about a return to painting. As if, in a moment of blinding revelation, the entire art world had come to its senses:...

on the suffering of fools

I have always thought of those that take the position never ‘to suffer fools gladly’ are a terribly dull and rude lot. For, to my mind, it is the fools, the dafties and the eccentrics who are the people you would rather be trapped with. The fine educated...