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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Giacometti
Published: Esquire Art 2007 – 2010 Alberto Giacometti was an artist both rooted in the exact and transported by the visionary. He was both a maker and a seer, both a […]
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Gregor Schneider
Published: Esquire Art 2007 – 2010 Gregor Schneider has returned to haunt us. At the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester he has brought his actual nursery, transplanted the entire room from […]
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Gregory Crewdson
Published: Esquire Art 2007 – 2010 In the summer of 1996 the photographer Gregory Crewdson spent two months alone in a cabin in a remote part of Massachusetts. Crewdson, who often […]
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Isa Genzken
Published: Esquire Art 2007 – 2010 Isa Genzken could easily be seen as a strange, marginal eccentric German sculptor whose body of work, while containing moments of purity and something close […]
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James Lee Byers
Published: Esquire Art 2007 – 2010 Had James Lee Byers not actually lived between 1932 and 1997, then it would have been necessary to invent him. He was a shaman, whose […]
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Jeff Koons
Published: Esquire Art 2007 – 2010 There was a time when the more you looked at a painting or a piece of sculpture the more you saw. You judged a work […]