The Death of Chatterton, an 1859 painting by Henry Wallis, has come to represent all that we expect of ‘the tortured artist’. The young Thomas Chatterton, having poisoned himself with arsenic, lies dead. A gentle ...
Is imitation really the best form of flattery? When it comes to art, the idea of mimicry becomes a fraudulent act, and one worthy of severe criminal punishment. The reality is that throughout galleries in ...
Art is inherently political. Yeh, yeh, you’ve heard it all before. That insipid statement, debated in cold stone school rooms and by bespectacled, turtle-neck wearing pseudos in their mid-teens. It persists. Cliché, bold, and affrontive as it ...
In recent weeks, the case of the young Spaniard who reported being attacked by eight men on the portal of his home has guided the opinions of the country, and the world, about the attacks suffered by ...
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