Mark Hudson
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- Bio
- Mark is the author of Titian, the Last Days. He writes on art and music for the Daily Telegraph, the Mail on Sunday and The Observer. His other books include the award-winning Our Grandmothers' Drums, Coming Back Brockens and The Music in my Head.
Articles by Mark Hudson
The Dark Side of the Moon: A Counterblast
Monday, 25 February 2013
In March 1973, John Lennon was 33. Elvis was 38. There was barely a musician, in the sense we understand it, over 40. No one with a mortgage – or hardly anyone – was into rock’n’roll. The Dark Side... Read more... |
Interview: Artist Richard Wentworth
Thursday, 14 February 2013
Richard Wentworth is the eminence not-so-grise of British contemporary art. The perpetually youthful sculptor’s activities span an extraordinary range of eras and ideas: serving as a teenage... Read more... |
Man Ray Portraits, National Portrait Gallery
Thursday, 07 February 2013
Travelling through Canada by train – more decades ago than I care to divulge here – I bought a book of Man Ray photographs at Banff in the heart of the Rockies. I spent the rest of the journey with... Read more... |
Yuletide Scenes 3: Snow Falling in the Lane
Friday, 21 December 2012
Christmas might not seem the most appropriate time to ask you, dear reader, if you’ve ever suffered a nervous breakdown. Yet for many this festival of conviviality amid the darkest hours of the year... Read more... |
Artes Mundi Prize, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Friday, 30 November 2012
An award for artists whose work engages with "social reality, lived experience and the human condition" has been won by a Mexican forensic technician whose works deals intimately with her country’s... Read more... |
William Turnbull, 1922-2012
Friday, 16 November 2012
William Turnbull was a Dundee shipyard engineer’s son who became a highly respected fixture on the London art scene for over six decades, principally as a sculptor, but also as painter and printmaker... Read more... |
Kafou: Haiti, Art and Vodou, Nottingham Contemporary
Thursday, 25 October 2012
I’ve rarely come across an exhibition as loaded with context as this one. Voodoo – or Vodou, as the show has it – is a massively complex and contested phenomenon, from the pin-sticking and zombies of... Read more... |
John Berger: Art and Property Now, Somerset House
Saturday, 08 September 2012
John Berger isn’t a man who has suffered through appearing to take himself massively seriously. His way of phrasing his most modest utterance as though the fate of the world’s dispossessed hangs on... Read more... |
theartsdesk at Land's End: The Penzance Convention
Sunday, 24 June 2012
Standing in Tate St Ives with the sun gleaming on the Atlantic, you wonder who they are, all these chilled, nonchalantly now people. Through the great curved window, the sun is setting over the... Read more... |
Globe to Globe: The Winter's Tale, Shakespeare's Globe
Sunday, 27 May 2012
The Winter’s Tale may not be one of the best loved of Shakespeare’s plays – not quite a comedy, not quite a full-blown drama – but the Globe was packed on the hottest night of the year for this... Read more... |
CD: Hawkwind - Onward
Monday, 30 April 2012
If Pink Floyd were always just businessmen in loonpants, Hawkwind really did appear to live the dream – or was it the nightmare? The early Seventies people’s band looked as though they permanently... Read more... |
The Excruciating Power of the Parental Legacy: My First Foray Into Curating
Saturday, 04 February 2012
Remember when you were out playing football with your mates, and your dad pulled up beside the pitch in a slightly too flashy car and told you it was time for tea or – even worse – tried to join in... Read more... |
2011: Where the Hell Was Now?
Monday, 02 January 2012
2011 was a year when now was difficult to find. The YBA/heroic monetarist era was definitively over – though Tracey Emin was accorded a far better retrospective than she deserved at the Hayward (see... Read more... |
Anselm Kiefer: Il Mistero delle Cattedrali, White Cube Bermondsey
Tuesday, 13 December 2011
That Anselm Kiefer is one of the great elder statesmen of contemporary art goes without saying. His work’s precise relevance to now is less clear. In the early 1980s, when he sprang to fame as part... Read more... |
LS Lowry, Richard Green Gallery
Tuesday, 29 November 2011
How can you review LS Lowry? The Salford rent-collector-cum-painter simply did what he did: sending his bendy, pipe-cleaner people through white-floored industrial streets, in scenes that seemed... Read more... |
Gallery: David McCabe and the Early Years of Warhol's Factory
Thursday, 20 October 2011
Who needs to hear or see anything more of the creepily manipulative world of Andy Warhol’s Factory? We’ve seen the films (well, bits of them); we bought the album (the one with the banana on the... Read more... |
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