| Description | Includes:
-review of an exhibition held at the Tate Gallery in 1993
This review sparked a letter to the Evening Standard from thirty-five signatories from the art world attacking Sewell as a critic and demanding his dismissal from the paper. However, this did not happen and an anthology of his more controversial reviews were published as: Sewell, B. (1994). The Reviews that Caused a Rumpus and other pieces. London: Bloomsbury. This book was revised and published a year later as Sewell, B. (1995). An Alphabet of Villains. London: Bloomsbury. Related material can be found in: BS/6/1/12 - Books and lectures: Books: The Reviews that caused a rumpus.
Also includes:
-letter to the Evening Standard, from J C Williams, undated, expressing support of Sewell as a critic
-letter from Colin Wheeler, The Independent, dated 5 January 1994, urging Sewell to continue writing about art
-letter from K. P. Pugh, dated 5 January 1994, expressing support for Sewell as a critic
-letter from Natalie Wheen, dated 13 April 1994, concerning an exchange of correspondence between her solicitor's and Sewell's, following her comments on Central Weekend Televison about his art criticism, and apologising unreservedly.
-twenty-one newspaper cuttings concerning Sewell as a critic, following the publication in the Evening Standard of the letter from the thirty-five signatories |