Who is funding Just Stop Oil? | The billionaires backing the art vandals
Millionaires fund Just Stop Oil and are encouraging the vandalism of beautiful and historic art the world over, with no consultation of the people.
Posts by: Alexander Adams
Jimmy Carr Destroys Art review | 'A wretched viewing experience'
As art is under assault in museums, Channel 4’s latest show, Jimmy Carr Destroys Art, further legitimises taking revenge on artworks, writes Alexander Adams.
Henry Fuseli at The Courtauld | Between Blue Velvet and brothel
Henry Fuseli’s drawings of 1890s women delight, intrigue and repulse Alexander Adams.
Paula Modersohn-Becker | A life in art
Art by pioneering female painter Paula Modersohn-Becker is being shown in London this winter. Alexander Adams reads a new biography.
Denis Wirth-Miller | Bohemian in the bullrushes
★★★☆☆ From louche Fitzrovia carouser to painting partner of Francis Bacon, Denis Wirth-Miller confounds Alexander Adams.
Pre-Raphaelite artists were actually very modern, Oxford exhibition reveals
★★★★☆
Drugs, affairs, fashion and interior design: Alexander Adams discovers in a new exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford that the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood were shockingly modern.Â
Claes Oldenburg was a counter-culture icon, but did he have integrity?
The Pop Artist's enormous sculptures were big, bold, and often witty - but many lacked heart or meaning.
Wind turbines to ruin Dal۪̉s beautiful beach house view
Plans have been announced to dramatically change one of Spain’s most famous views and perhaps the most well-known sea view in art history.
Sale of Ted Hughes’s poems reveals his raw grief
Never-before-seen handwritten poems by the late poet reveal his suffering after his second partner's suicide, just six years after his first wife Sylvia Plath killed herself.
The Van Gogh glue protest and political vandalism of art
After two vandals glue their hands to a valuable van Gogh, Alexander Adams looks at the wider questions surrounding art-related protests.
T.S. Eliot | Maverick modernist to conservative Christian
A new biography deftly chronicles the poet's life from working in the City of London to becoming church warden at a Kensington parish.
Which countries want their artefacts back from British museums?
As Sudan become the latest nation to demand repatriation of valuable objects, we look at some other claims have been made for artefacts in British museums.
Hockney's California love life in his early sketches 1963-77
★★★★☆
This exhibition of Hockney's early sketches, from his time in California as a young gay man, reveal a delicate intimacy.
Marina Abramović: Pioneering Performer or Sinister Globalist?
A new book examines the career of controversial artist Marina Abramović, exploring whether her ideas are either troubling or inspiring.
Edvard Munch at The Courtauld Review: Angst, Alienation and Absinthe
★★★★☆
From despair to desire, introspective gloom to dazzling light, this exhibition on Edvard Munch at The Courtauld gallery has it all.
