Fan Letter

‘She introduced me to the borderland of craft, for which I count myself very lucky’

‘Released following the musician’s death in 1993, the album is an extraordinary swan song: morose, comical and utterly preposterous’

‘To me, it offers a particular emotional experience – something like joyful grief’

‘If criticality indicates a desire for change, then surely the critic is actually an optimist’

‘I started to read Mayröcker’s work obsessively. She became one of the few writers whose every written word I have read’

‘It was a piece of long-term thinking that put aside political expediency for the future benefit of citizens’

‘If anything can be converted to DNA, then this interview could become a DNA portrait of you’

‘Hollis’s great skill is to reconcile frugality with generosity’

‘I keep returning to the work – even as it changes’ 

‘The bold, deep, shoulder-shaking beats of the new-jack sound era’

‘My sense was that a shift had happened in what is only now called fashion exhibition-making’

‘Chadwick relished combining provocative and problematic materials in order to probe the body and its boundaries’

‘Jones co-opts the male-on-male objectifying gaze of gay erotica and converts it to a female-on-female gaze’

‘It encourages you to ponder its exalted lineage while taking the piss out of you for doing so’

‘Each hypnotic frame of No Home Movie lasts just long enough to allow our minds to wander, summoning recollections of domestic spaces’

‘Tang’s action took place at a time when performance art was outlawed by the Singaporean authorities’

‘You have taught art within a history that is our own, with a language that is our own’

‘It’s the way he talks about his own death that amazed then and impresses today’

‘It was an architectural death mask of a domestic space and of a century of its inhabitants’

 ‘He is ruthless in pursuit of his vision as any great director must be; his powerful images are indelible’