#peter-doig

#peter-doig

"It's always puzzling to visit the homes of extremely sophisticated contemporary artists (or collectors), and discover that their taste in music consists of uninformed wank," wrote Neel Brown in Frieze in 1998. He was reviewing Blizzard Seventy-Seven, Peter Doig 's first institutional survey at London's Whitechapel Gallery, for which curator Matthew Higgs had appended a catalogue of the artist's record collection for the show's publication.

Deep in the grimy, dimly lit back roads of King's Cross is a pub, a boozer in the truest sense of the word. McGlynn's, it's called, and when its landlord Jerry died in 2023, the pub died with him; it became just another ex-pub in a city full of ex-pubs. It was a special, unique place, a surviving slice of pre-gentrification London where you could still get a round in without taking out a mortgage,

The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit upheld a sanctions ruling of $2.5m in favor of artist Peter Doig against claims he painted a disputed work.