Between 2007 and 2010 Colm Tóibín was art critic for the UK edition of Esquire magazine. These are his columns as they appeared.
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Andy Warhol
Published: Esquire Art 2007 – 2010 Every night now before I go to sleep I read deeply in Andy Warhol’s diaries. It is lovely being in the company of one of […]
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Anish Kapoor
Published: Esquire Art 2007 – 2010 Anish Kapoor creates odd shapes that seem unafraid of their own mystery, or at times of their own perfection. He is not an artist who […]
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Ron Arad
Published: Esquire Art 2007 – 2010 One of the great moments when the distinguished history of British snobbery met the limited world of British design was when Alan Clarke declared of […]
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Baselitz
Published: Esquire Art 2007 – 2010 Some painters have all the luck. They invent or stumble across a style or a signature gesture early in their careers and then spend their […]
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Beuys
Published: Esquire Art 2007 – 2010 It is hard to know who to love, or who to stay with. It is clear that the government or the BBC or someone […]
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Bridget Riley
Published: Esquire Art 2007 – 2010 Beauty. Subtlety. Repetition. Mystery. Delicacy.Serious. Cerebral. Unchanging. Determined. Mesmerising.There are really only a few living artists whose work these five nouns and five adjectives could […]