Tim Adams

Articles by Tim Adams

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

Where the real art lies

  • 27 November 2008
  • 1 comment

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

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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