The Great Brian
December 8 2014
Picture: Sunday Times
I'm told Brian Sewell has resigned from the Evening Standard. This is very sad news indeed, and brings to an end one of the greatest art critic columns ever written.
Update - a reader writes:
This is very sad if unsurprising news.
Reading his column massively brightened the commute home and his writing was not only hugely entertaining but a great way into art. Proof, as he would say, that if you don't dumb down and underestimate your audience you will take them with you.
p.s. If you haven't read them, his memoirs include some gold standard anecdotes. The Salvidor Dali one takes some beating.
I have indeed read them, and splendidly written they are too, if, at times, a little eye opening...
