by Alan Todd | May 10, 2024 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
Once again, I read this week of an artist suing another for using similar ideas. This time it was Anthony James and Maurizio Cattelan over sheets of metal peppered with bullet holes even though such practice has been employed by Kader Attia, Angelo Brescianini,...
by Alan Todd | Apr 6, 2024 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
AGE, RETIREMENT AND THE FALLACY OF YOUTH There are questions that recur frequently in my life and with them come inbuilt assumptions. The first is ‘when did you decide to become an artist? and the second ‘are you retired?’ Grey hair seems to prompt the latter...
by Alan Todd | Mar 17, 2024 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
For some decades now the art world has been pondering where it is heading, if it is heading anywhere in particular or in indeed if it could ever have a singular face. When the work of artists could be compartmentalised into movements and developmental links...
by Alan Todd | Feb 27, 2024 | Art
by Alan Todd | Feb 9, 2024 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
Susan Sontag, American writer, critic, and public intellectual, wrote about the interpretation versus the appreciation of art. Perhaps that dilemma is inevitable when the question ‘what does it mean?’ presages any appreciation as though what is perceived is in...