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The Cantankerous Art Critic

Richard H Klein

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. Iconoclastic reviews of the arts and culture that are fun to read.

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It's the right shape....

He’s behind you!! Christ alive, is there is no getting away from Leigh Bowery’s codpiece?

You know, for a modern building. Lots of awkward angles, straight lines and sharp edges.

Alternatively you might call it characterless and cold.

T...

12 days ago
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Van Gogh...on acid

Visandi Landscape (1913/14), by Konrad Magi. Whatever he is on, I’ll have some….

Which may strike you as like being France’s fourth best racing driver, a bit, you know, so-so. Mediocre.

Don’t be fooled. Magi is a great painter, his pictur...

18 days ago
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POP's Unfashionable Geniuses

The cantakerous art critic in search of genius…

We’re awash with solo, largely female, warblers who sing lame songs of wronged lives. Yes, they have terrific voices and incredible production values.

But despite the glamorous spectacle th...

a month ago
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Girl Power (18th century-style).

Angelica Kauffman, originally from Switzerland, was one, Élizabeth Louise Vigée le Brun, a French woman, the other.

They specialised in painting portraits for the nobs - in le Brun’s case, most famously Marie Antoinette - and they did so...

2 months ago
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Drably vivid or vividly drab?

Approach to Fonthill (1940) [Oil on linen], by John Piper

His pictures - prints, collages and paintings - are ever-present at auction. I went online and found a dozen or so examples of his work, decent prints from as little as £500.

And...

2 months ago
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    Iconoclast, critic, television executive & channel controller and lion tamer with an expertise in sucking lemons and being irritable. I like orchards, cars and tennis.

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