Brian Sewell (born 15 July 1931 in Kensington, London)^[1] is an English art critic. He writes for the Evening Standard and is noted for his artistic conservatism and acerbic reviews of the Turner Prize and conceptual art, and along with his upper class demeanor, he is often made into a figure of fun. July 15 is the 196th day (197th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 169 days remaining. ... 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1931 calendar). ... Kensington is an area to the west of Central London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem God Save the King (Queen) England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Government Constitutional monarchy  -  Queen Queen Elizabeth II  -  Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification  -  by Athelstan 967  Area... An art critic is normally a person who have a speciality in giving reviews mainly of the types of fine art you will find on display. Typically the art critic will go to an art exhibition where works of art are displayed in the traditional way in localities especially made... Headlines of the Evening Standard on the day of London bombing on July 7, 2005, in Waterloo Station The Evening Standard is a British tabloid newspaper published and sold in London and surrounding areas of southeast England. ... The Turner Prize is an annual prize given to a British visual artist under 50, named after the painter J.M.W. Turner. ... Joseph Kosuth, One and Three Chairs (1965) Conceptual art is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. ...

Early life

Sewell's father died before he was born. He was raised in Kensington, London, attended Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, and then Courtauld Institute of Art, where he was tutored by Anthony Blunt and became his friend as a result. Sewell graduated in 1957. He worked at the auction house Christie's, specialising in Old Master paintings and drawings. Kensington is an area to the west of Central London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The Courtauld Institute of Art is a listed organisation of the University of London specialising in the study of the history of art. ... Anthony Frederick Blunt (26 September 1907 – 26 March 1983) was an English art historian and the Fourth Man of the Cambridge Five, a group of spies working for the Soviet Union during the Cold War. ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Art criticism

In 1984 he became the art critic of the Evening Standard (replacing "avant-garde" critic Richard Cork), where he has won many press awards, including Critic of the Year 1988, Arts Journalist of the Year 1994, the Hawthornden Prize for Art Criticism 1995 and the Foreign Press Award (Arts) 2000. In his criticisms of the Tate Gallery's art, he coined the phrase, the "Serota Tendency", after its director Nicholas Serota. It was not until the late 1990s that he became a household media figure through his appearances on television. 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Headlines of the Evening Standard on the day of London bombing on July 7, 2005, in Waterloo Station The Evening Standard is a British tabloid newspaper published and sold in London and surrounding areas of southeast England. ... Dr Richard Cork is a British art historian, critic, broadcaster and exhibition curator. ... The Tate Gallery in the United Kingdom is a network of four galleries: Tate Britain (opened 1897), Tate Liverpool (1988), Tate St Ives (1993), Tate Modern (2000), with a complementary website Tate Online (1998). ... Nicholas Serota Sir Nicholas Serota (born 1946) is a curator, and is currently Director of the Tate Gallery, the United Kingdoms national gallery of modern and British art. ... For the band, see 1990s (band). ...

He is noted for his affected manner and anti-populist sentiments. He offended some people in Gateshead by claiming an exhibition was too important to be held only at the Baltic and should be shown to "more sophisticated" audiences in London. He has become a popular subject for impersonation and is sometimes described as having "the poshest voice in Britain", or, as Paul Merton once told him: "You make the Queen sound rough." Sewell is imitated by Jon Culshaw for the Dead Ringers comedy show. A track on the 1991 comedy CD Tested on Humans for Irritancy has satirical journalist Victor Lewis-Smith telephoning Sewell and, in Sewell's voice, asking the critic to appear on a spoof arts programme. Naturally, Sewell was not amused. This article is about Gateshead, England. ... The BALTIC Centre as viewed from the Millennium Bridge The BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art is an arts centre located on the South Bank of the River Tyne close to the Gateshead Millennium Bridge, in Gateshead in the north-east of England. ... Paul Merton (born Paul Martin 9 July 1957[1]) is an English actor, deadpan comedian and writer, who is best known as a panellist on the BBC TV show Have I Got News for You and Radio 4s Just a Minute, as well as Channel 4s Whose Line... Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of sixteen sovereign states, holding each crown and title equally. ... Jonathan Peter Culshaw (born June 2, 1968 in Ormskirk, Lancashire) is an English impressionist and comedian. ... Dead Ringers is a UK radio and television comedy impressions show broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Two. ...

Television

In 2004, Brian Sewell made a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, as a travelogue-cum-architectural criticism documentary in The Naked Pilgrim, a reference to Quentin Crisp's The Naked Civil Servant. Although he has not practised the religion for several decades, Sewell still considers himself to be a member of the Catholic Church, prompting an emotional response to the faith of pilgrims to Lourdes. The Naked Pilgrim was followed by Brian Sewell's Grand Tour, broadcast on Five in 2006. 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Location map of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia Santiago de Compostela (also Saint James of Compostela) is the capital of the autonomous community of Galicia. ... Quentin Crisp. ... The Naked Civil Servant is the first volume of autobiography by the gay icon Quentin Crisp and a TV movie based on the book. ... Lourdes is a town situated in the Southwest of the Hautes-Pyrénées department, lying in the first Pyrenean foothills. ... The interior of the Pantheon in the 18th century, painted by Giovanni Paolo Panini In the 18th century, the Grand Tour was a kind of education for wealthy British noblemen, wherein the primary educational value was exposure to the cultured artifacts of antiquity and the Renaissance as well as the... Five (often referred as five, as per the logo), formerly, and more commonly known as Channel 5, is the British fifth and final national analogue terrestrial TV channel. ...

Sewell is unmarried and is a museum adviser in South Africa, Germany and the United States and patron of the British charity NORM-UK which raises awareness of issues surrounding circumcision and other forms of surgical alteration of the genitals. NORM-UK is a British-based charity concerned with foreskin health and issues related to circumcision. ...

See also

• Other contemporary UK art critics:

David Lee

Adrian Searle

Louisa Buck

Sarah Kent

Waldemar Januszczak

Matthew Collings

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References

1. ^ A Life In Full: Nothing if not critical, by Andrew Barrow, The Independent on Sunday, September 28, 2003