http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/waldemar_januszczak en http://www.newstatesman.com/art/2008/05/turner-prize-channel-modern http://www.newstatesman.com/art/2008/05/turner-prize-channel-modern Thu, 22 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT Waldemar Januszczak The announcement of the 2008 Turner Prize shortlist has prompted the usual carping. But let’s not forget that the award has transformed the way we see contemporary art in Britain

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200410040043 http://www.newstatesman.com/200410040043 Mon, 04 Oct 2004 12:00:00 GMT Waldemar Januszczak Leonardo Martin Kemp Oxford University Press, 304pp, £14.99 ISBN 0192805460 Leonardo da Vinci: the flights of the mind Charles Nicholl Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 623pp, £25

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200405100038 http://www.newstatesman.com/200405100038 Mon, 10 May 2004 12:00:00 GMT Waldemar Januszczak Van Gogh slept with countless prostitutes and even gave his ear to one. But the importance of sex in his life and work has been ignored in the sweetly mythologised image of him as a sunflower-painting saint. Waldemar Januszczak reveals the artist's true colours

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