Tim Adams
Articles by Tim Adams
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Art
End of the irony age
- 05 November 2009
- 1 comment
Once shocking, much of the work in Tate’s latest survey of pop art now seems tired. It shows how inured we’ve become to big-bucks banality
Art
Traveller from an antique land
- 01 October 2009
Anselm Kiefer’s bleakly despairing vision causes disquiet in an art world used to in-jokes and irony
Culture
The tent is empty
- 16 July 2009
- 4 comments
“The art market is on a knife-edge,” Tracey Emin has declared. Launching a series of investigations into art and the financial crisis, Tim Adams traces the falling stock of the melodramatic poster-child of Britart
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
Art
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
Art
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
Art
A painter under the influence
- 05 March 2009
- 2 comments
The myth that Picasso sprang forth as a fully formed genius is neatly undermined by the National Gallery's new exhibition
Art
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?
Art
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
Art
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
