He made light of his “violon d’Ingres,” but with Ashbery’s death we lost a great art critic

The Late Works at London’s National Gallery

This is the first publication of an essay written on the occasion of Craig Fisher’s recent exhibitions at Florence Lynch in October 2002 and Galerie Corinne Caminade, Paris, in March/April 2003 The conflicts and antagonisms that impinge on the place of painting in contemporary culture are innumerable, and they’ve been with us for generations. In … Continued