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Michael Craig-Martin review – sorry, but these lamps and filing cabinets just aren’t that interesting
Michael Craig-Martin review – sorry, but these lamps and filing cabinets just aren’t that interesting

Michael Craig-Martin's early conceptual work inspired the likes of Damien Hirst, but the show at the Royal Academy of Arts has inexplicably focused on Craig-Martin's cool and clinical representations of the ordinary stuff of modern life, writes Jonathan Jones.

The Guardian · 17 Sep, 2024 @ 13:14

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