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What is good about the d'Offay exhibition?
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HOWARD HODGKIN: AS GOOD TODAY AS HE'S EVER BEEN? "Howard Hodgkin's new paintings are a mess. At least, I thought so the first time I saw them. Crude, slapped-on swathes of blue and green, bare patches of wood underneath, haphazard strokes - where was the balance and delicacy of structure, the dance of vibrantly contrasting colours that glowed on the walls at his 1997 Hayward retrospective?" These are the opening remarks of Jonathan Jones in an article that appeared in 'The Times' on Thursday 11 November 1999, the day before Howard Hodgkin's current retrospective opened at the Anthony d'Offay gallery in London, He went on to say "This may be his best work, but some people will say it is his worst". I am going to argue the case that the work in Hodgkin's current show is as good, if not better than it was at his Hayward retrospective: even that he...
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