Peter Watson
Articles by peter watson
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Arts & Culture
Jeffrey Archer sells all
- 11 November 2002
Auctions - Peter Watson on how themed sales might save the art market from crashing
Society
Why psychiatry has failed
- 01 July 2002
We can fly to the moon and tap genetic secrets, but human beings are as badly behaved and as miserable as ever. Is it because shrinks rely too much on words?
Media
Why Tracey Emin isn't smiling
- 18 February 2002
Peter Watson reveals that, weary of pickled sheep and unmade beds, art world insiders are plotting to end bad aesthetic times and change the Turner Prize
Politics
These books could change the world
- 17 December 2001
The New Statesman Christmas - You will spend the holiday catching up on important new works in philosophy, political theory, science and so on. Won't you? Well, here's Peter Watson's guide
Politics
Lost in the swamp of modernity
- 29 October 2001
His survey of scholars around the world convinced Peter Watsonthat, outside the west, there were no new ideas in the 20th century
Politics
If it's art, it must be fake
- 23 April 2001
Top auction houses now take a dubious view of everything on offer, reports Peter Watson
Politics
How forgeries corrupt our top museums
- 25 December 2000
Our knowledge of entire ancient civilisations is being corrupted by fakes. Foolish scholars and curators are to blame, reports Peter Watson
