Tim Adams
Articles by Tim Adams
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Arts & Culture
Pleasures of the flesh
- 25 June 2009
A new television series encourages the nation to take up life classes. Our art critic Tim Adams does just that, and discovers that drawing the human body is a form of ritual communion in which the sitter is as active as the artist
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The nation's conscience
- 04 June 2009
Representing Britain at this year’s Venice Biennale, Steve McQueen is an extravagant talent. And his experience as an official war artist in Iraq has made him determined to face down uncomfortable truths
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A creative space for all
- 02 April 2009
NS art critic Tim Adams celebrates the restoration of a part of the East End's soul
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A painter under the influence
- 05 March 2009
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The myth that Picasso sprang forth as a fully formed genius is neatly undermined by the National Gallery's new exhibition
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From riches to Wags
- 12 February 2009
Palladio's classical aesthetic is now beloved of Prince Charles and Premiership footballers. What would the man himself make of it all?
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The road to riches
- 08 January 2009
Since independence, Indian artists have been engaged in obsessively constructing an identity for their fractured, ever-changing nation
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Where the real art lies
- 27 November 2008
The winner of the 2008 Turner Prize is due to be announced imminently, but Tim Adams finds that the Tate's catalogue writers are the stars in this competition
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The age of uncertainty
- 13 November 2008
The painters and photographers of the First World War were resolutely on the side of the ordinary soldier. Today, artists have an ambiguous attitude to conflict in the Middle East, and struggle to express its true horrors
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Enfants in terrible times
- 23 October 2008
This year's Frieze Art Fair featured heaps of recycled ideas. And with budgets squeezed, decadence seemed suddenly so last month
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Credit crunchable
- 23 October 2008
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With his customary impeccable timing, Charles Saatchi launched his new gallery with a Chinese show about shrinking western power just as markets collapsed
