Burlington Contemporary is the Burlington Magazine’s free online platform for reviews and research on international contemporary art.
Burlington Contemporary is the Burlington Magazine’s free online platform for reviews and research on international contemporary art.
A ROSE," it is said, "by any other name will smell as sweet." This is not always true of a picture. If the wail, " How am I to know if a picture is good if I don't know who painted it ? " was not constantly audible at The Nameless Exhibition's press day, it was only because it was unbecoming on the lips of critics. Yet how excellent a thing it would be if on press days catalogues were always withheld and signatures obliterated ! Newspaper criticism might in the end pass from the hands of men who have learnt the safe sort of things to say about artists, into the hands of men who have learnt to look at their works.
