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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Jenny Holzer
Published: Esquire Art 2007 – 2010 ‘I am not a painter, I am a poet,’ the poet (and art critic) Frank O’Hara wrote in 1956. And then he wrote: ‘Why? I […]
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Juan Munoz
Published: Esquire Art 2007 – 2010 It seemed as the new dawn of democracy broke in Spain in the late 1970s that artists in their twenties had a great subject – […]
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Richard Long
Published: Esquire Art 2007 – 2010 The idea for Richard Long that the world was once undisturbed remains deep and powerful. A world before archaeology, before maps, before human sounds and […]
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Louise Bourgeois
Published: Esquire Art 2007 – 2010 Louise Bourgeois is the sort of artist every curator wants to have and to hold; the objects she conjures up with such skill and steely, […]
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Martin Creed
Published: Esquire Art 2007 – 2010 What are we going to do about ordinary life? It is always out there demanding our attention in tones sometimes muffled, sometimes shrill. Most artists […]
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Matthew Barney
Published: Esquire Art 2007 – 2010 When writers watch artists, they shake their heads in envy. Artists have more fun, more money, sweeter partners and longer orgasms. They look like rock […]