The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
The Tate art galleries have failed in their core purpose of becoming a showcase of the best British works, managing only to build up "wretched" collections, according to Brian Sewell, the art critic.
LGBT History Month UK (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
... and personalities on British TV. TV New Dirty Dali: A Private View at 11.25pm on More4 Saturday. Brian Sewell assesses the artist’s tastes, which included a fondness for androgyny. Not for the faint-hearted I gather. Die-hard fans of Dolly Parton might choose to watch Fern Britton Meets… on BBC1 at 10am Sunday , where the C and W icon talks about the impact of religion...
Bitterwallet (Free subscription) | yesterday
Mucky films and pictures are something that our dirty minded species can’t help but embrace. Before we had electricity, people used to fumble in their trousers to the nudie statues in galleries and museums. This makes art-critics a bunch of filth pedlars. These days, we don’t need Brian Sewell dribbling over some marble arse because we’ve got a dizzying array of ways we can pump porn...
McCabism (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
It seems to be a week for unusual and inexplicable combinations. Erstwhile Toyota F1 driver Jarno Trulli revealed at the weekend that he was seriously considering an eventual move to NASCAR, the American stock-car racing series. On the face of it, this would be as appropriate as Brian Sewell playing centre-forward for Caledonian Thistle. Jarno, of course, was so indignant at being hung...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
... Museum of Art. The RSPCA has called Fox's work "cruel and exploitative". However, since Brian Sewell trod on Fox's principal painter, Harry Hairy-Legs, she now uses slugs. I am suing Sewell for loss of earnings. My winter address is Jasmine House, White Sand Beach, Tobago. There is no phone, email or Twitter. Sue Townsend's latest book is Adrian Mole: The Prostrate...
Railway Eye (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
... as 'Derby Day' and the 'Railway Station'. UPDATE: This, allegedly and somewhat surprisingly, from Brian Sewell... My dear Fact Compiler My very old and dear chum Leo has committed the most egregious solecism in miss-spelling that minor Victorian painter Frith, noted for his scenes of public venues. May I add in passing how much I was disturbed by the decorated HST power car portrayed...
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
... of the funeral of the Poet Rupert Brook . It’s of its time (and seems to be narrated by Brian Sewell’s cousin!) but the sound effects and music work well together. If you listen right to the end there is a final twist which adds to the complex nature of remembering the dead of all wars.
Living for pleasure alone... (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
... of the funeral of the Poet Rupert Brook . It’s of its time (and seems to be narrated by Brian Sewell’s cousin) but the sound effects and music work well together. If you listen right to the end there is a final twist which adds to the complex nature of remembering the dead of all wars. simple pleasures
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
... interpret the films. The art is the most important thing. The films are secondary."The art critic Brian Sewell, however, is dismissive of the idea that Burton's work possessed artistic merit. "I think curators are ill advised and usually wrong," he said. "I don't think there can ever be another Warhol. There could never be anybody who excels at that skilled merchandising of multiples....
This is London (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The paint's the thing for Frank Auerbach By Brian Sewell, Evening Standard 05.11.09 Colour code: Summer Building Site 1952, which Auerbach painted at the age of 21 — “I felt it was the beginning of my life as a painter,” he says Men at work: Building Site Portobello Road Winter, 1954 — labourers take centre stage Look here too , at 78, continues to be presented as, if not quite a “grand...
Anna Raccoon (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
... winners of the Journalism Prize include Polly Toynbee, Timothy Garton Ash, Paul Foot, Brian Sewell, Matthew Parris and David Aaronovitch. Patrick Cockburn of the London Review of Books and the Independent clinched this year’s Journalism Prize.Last year they awarded a blogging prize for the first time, which most deservedly went to ‘Nightjack’ – as a result of which the Sunday Times...
Liverpool Confidential (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
IT'S said to be the oldest passenger station in the world, and now it has opened as an arts centre prompting everyone to “Get off at Edge Hill!”.The Times of London, in its plummiest Brian Sewell voice, thus explained the title of this inaugural event for its readers: “The phrase is familiar to Liverpudlians meaning interrupted sex. Edge Hill was the last stop before Liverpool Lime Street,...
