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One Piece Worth Seeing
Cap D’Ennis, Barcelona (X), 1989–91, Oil on primed Basik paper, 104 × 70 cm
This week I wanted to look again at Clyde Hopkins’ works on paper because they continue to surprise me. I have been spending a lot of time with them recently, in p...
Against “Each to Their Own”: What We Mean When We Say Good Art
Six months ago, I wrote about the simple but slippery idea that good art is art “worth seeing”. Not necessarily expensive, fashionable, difficult or institutionally varnished, but just worth seeing – as in worth your time, worth your attent...
One Piece Worth Seeing
Marilyn Hallam, Private View Card November, 1996-9, Oil on canvas, 107 x 76 cm
There are painters whose work has been overlooked because it is weak, repetitive or historically inconvenient. And then there are painters whose work has been o...
Where Art Is Bought - and What Those Places Ask of You
Where Art Is Bought - and What Those Places Ask of You
A lot of my recent writing has circled around artists - how they work, how they survive, how they negotiate disappointment - but it this has left another group uncared for - the collec...
What the Epstein Files Reveal About the Art World
How culture helps power look civilised - and why the Epstein files reveal more about the art world’s habits than its monsters.
I wrote this a while ago and then left it… I was reluctant to publish it. Not because it felt irrelevant, quite...
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Greg Rook is an independent art advisor and curator - founder of Blackbird Rook. Writing about contemporary art and the culture around it.
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