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1 month ago | 
mrbellersneighborhood.com | Joseph Samuels |Thomas Pryor |Justin Goldberg |Adrian Dannatt
The butterflies in my stomach had made their annual visit. It was the first day of school after a summer camping in New Jersey and the Bronx with my aunt and cousins. The oppression of a Catholic school education was always tough to return to after a summer spent outdoors. Like a Marine returning from extended leave, I would now have to conform to life on base. The sneakers, T-shirt, and dungarees of summer would be exchanged for the Saint Monica’s uniform.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
theartnewspaper.com | Louis Bury |Adrian Dannatt
If you ever contemplated buying art but were put off by a steep price, Haul Gallery’s group exhibition Pay What You Want (until 9 February) proposes a cheeky alternative. For each work in the show, buyers can name their own price to acquire it, on a first-come, first-serve basis, with $1 as the price floor. But there’s a catch: the contributing artists were prompted to make pieces that are physically or conceptually difficult to sell.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
spectator.co.uk | Adrian Dannatt
Christmas, and in every city already crowds congregate around the festive department store displays in defiance of the apparent disappearance of the ‘high street’. For despite digital merchandising and online delivery, adults as much as children delight in this annual extravaganza, and such windows prove more popular than ever precisely because they cannot be enjoyed other than physically, in person.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Adrian Dannatt
Christmas, and in every city already crowds congregate around the festive department store displays in defiance of the apparent disappearance of the ‘high street’. For despite digital merchandising and online delivery, adults as much as children delight in this annual extravaganza, and such windows prove more popular than ever precisely because they cannot be enjoyed other than physically, in person.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
abilene-rc.com | Adrian Dannatt
Venice is the most beautiful city in the world, perhaps the greatest physical creation of humankind (debatably), and like the Muslim obligation to visit Mecca once in your lifetime, so too it would be some sort of sin to die without having ever seen La Serenissima or the Republic of Venice. Better still, if you get there before December, you can catch the Venice Biennale, the fastest and most fun way to discover everything happening in contemporary art from all around the world.
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Nov 14, 2023 | 
thespectator.com | Daniel DePetris |Jim Lawley |Dot Wordsworth |Adrian Dannatt
MAGA shaman Jake Chansley is trading in his horned helmet, bare chest and spear for a suit and tie. The January 6 rioter who led the charge into the Senate chamber is hoping to return to the Capitol in 2024 as a congressman. Chansley filed paperwork last week to run in Arizona’s 8th congressional district as a Libertarian. The seat is currently held by Representative Debbie Lesko, a sixty-four-year-old Republican, who announced last month that she would not seek re-election.
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Nov 14, 2023 | 
thespectator.com | Daniel DePetris |Jim Lawley |Dot Wordsworth |Adrian Dannatt
A year ago today, President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping shook hands with each other on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit in Bali, Indonesia, in an attempt to reset the world’s most important bilateral relationship. The two men, who knew each other during their previous encounters at the vice presidential level, hoped to exploit their familiarity with one another to bring US-China relations onto a more productive plane. And for a moment, the Bali talkathon seemed to have that effect.
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
spectator.com.au | Adrian Dannatt
‘You cannot begin by calling me France’s most famous living artist!’ Thus Sophie Calle objected to the first line of the obituary I wrote for her, commissioned for the enormous exhibition, À toi de faire, ma mignonne (‘Over to you, sweetie’), that currently occupies the whole Musée National Picasso-Paris. But modesty aside, it is a fact that no other French artist alive today is so celebrated, loved, debated, denounced and, indeed, imitated, around the world as Calle.
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
spectator.co.uk | Adrian Dannatt
Text size Small Medium Large Line Spacing Compact Normal Spacious Comments ‘You cannot begin by calling me France’s most famous living artist!’ Thus Sophie Calle objected to the first line of the obituary I wrote for her, commissioned for the enormous exhibition, À toi de faire, ma mignonne (‘Over to you, sweetie’), that currently occupies the whole Musée National Picasso-Paris. But modesty aside, it is a fact that no other French artist alive today is so celebrated, loved, debated, denounced...
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Aug 9, 2023 | 
theoldie.co.uk | Adrian Dannatt
‘I’d like to introduce you to my obituarist.’ That’s how I was regularly referred to by my amusing American friend. He loved to bandy this term about on every social occasion, accosting hardened doormen of the most exclusive nightclubs of Manhattan with the cry, ‘Let us through. I’m here with my obituarist.’
What a pleasing notion – that you might travel everywhere with your own personally appointed necrologist – but it was also true.
