Brian Sewell talks to the Evening Standard ahead of the publication of his new book, Naked Emperors.
The book of criticism from the London Evening Standard is his first collection to be published in nearly 30 years and has been selected from his art reviews of exhibitions by English contemporary artists.
Most first appeared in the Standard, for whom he has written regularly since 1984. The reviews are gathered chronologically under artist or institution and discuss nearly every important contemporary English art exhibition for the past quarter of a century.
Besides being a record of one man's developing response to the explosion of blockbuster contemporary art shows and multi-millionaire artist escapades of the past two decades, the reviews' sequence also reveal how much this often maligned critic did, at first, wish the new art establishment well.
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