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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Christian Boltanski
Published: Esquire Art 2007 – 2010 The idea that, in the light of what has happened, a statue or a painting, or a piece of abstract sculpture, can no longer carry […]
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Damien Hirst
Published: Esquire Art 2007 – 2010 One day in the summer of 2006 I found myself in London with a late flight to catch and a hangover to recover from and […]
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Francis Alys
Published: Esquire Art 2007 – 2010 Some contemporary artists approach cities in the same way as their predecessors approached landscape. They love the idea, say, of a figure moving through a […]
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Franz Ackermann
Published: Esquire Art 2007 – 2010 No one will believe me when I insist that when I went to live in Barcelona in 1975 there were no tourists. Tourists went to […]
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Gabriel Orozco
Published: Esquire Art 2007 – 2010 For all of the twentieth century in the cities of South and Central America, there have been artists and writers working with a small coterie […]
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Gerhard Richter
Published: Esquire Art 2007 – 2010 Gerhard Richter has one of the most interesting minds in Europe and one of the bravest talents. To say that he is the result of […]