Fan Letter

‘His work opened a pathway to design for me that no architectural school or practice could’

‘His works are imbued with such rare emotional acuity and nuance that it is hard not to be first stunned and, then, deeply moved’

‘It’s all there: charm, humour, ethics, friendship’

‘I found it at my local used bookstore more than a month before its release date, only days after 9/11’

‘The show singlehandedly thrust Africa back into the culture of global contemporary art.’

‘I know no more perfect portrait of artist and muse’

‘Her work challenges the way 20th-century history has been shaped in our cultural imaginaries’

‘No other installation has come close to the swooning sensation of seeing Bourgeois’s work for the first time’

‘Purifoy conjured life from practically nothing: ten pairs of used trousers, discarded trainers, a few spare planks’

‘He wasn’t English, but he was playing an English game, the fag in the Establishment, a light entertainer, undisguised yet somehow unseen, an open secret’

‘Gray’s presence is painted on the city; he’s a local, living myth’

We look back on 28 years of publishing by remembering what inspires us

‘Do you remember what that was like seeing great art and knowing nothing about its maker or context?’

‘These works render the real, estranged personalities of our present perturbing, alluring; exquisite’

‘The Western that heroized pioneers unsettling the West was moribund. Unforgiven, an anti-Western Western, buried it.’

‘I knew, while trying that chair, that I wanted whatever the future had to offer’

For all the camp and capering, Eddie and Patsy’s antics also have a plaintive, even existential tinge

‘A magical, fucked-up masterpiece’

‘After Kurzweil’s book landed with a thud in the centre of our culture, it was impossible not to address its claims’

Hall’s understanding of cultural identity allows us to deconstruct and reconstruct who we think we are