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	21 Publishing - It Hurts
		In It Hurts Matthew Collings turns his attention to the New York art scene, and applies to it the same keen, unpretentious intelligence and perceptive wit that made Blimey, his book on the London art world, such a success.
		Matthew Collings's book on the London art world was described by the Guardian's critic as 'hilarious and horrible, intelligent and frightening, the book the art world deserves'.
		Collings quickly points out that the UK was a good ten years ahead of the States in the Pop Art charts.
	www.21publishing.com /hurts.html (557 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: This Is Modern Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Collings has a breezy writing style that exactly matches the way he talks on television during the Turner Prize or on one of his documentaries.
		Collings isn't afraid to tell you that he doesn't really know what some pieces of art are about, or that he is only guessing.
		Matthew Collings must be one of the only art critics in all history who A: Knows something about art and B: Doesn't talk complete bull****.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1841881007 (829 words)

	[No title]
		Matthew Collings begins to stand as Freakshow nails him with a big double axe handle smash from the ring apron.
		Collings begins to comeback and he stands and begins driving his elbow in to the stomach of Freakshow.
		Collings pushes Freakshow away and begins to walk towards him, he is sent down hard with a drop toehold.
	www.angelfire.com /pe2/hwa/thursdayr.html (2663 words)

	artnet.com Magazine Index - No Pain, No Gain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Collings' approach to critical writing is apparently influenced by his television work, to which he tangentially alludes.
		Collings is a master of short descriptions of artists in their environments, like the warehouse of paintings he calls "Olitski World, waiting for elitism to come back." He also has a knack for the epigrammatic.
		Collings can also be stoned on his own exhaust, succumbing to what could be called "snapshot-itis." Getting the photo of an admittedly photogenic Kiki Smith seems to be the point of his write-up on her.
	www.artnet.com /Magazine/index/moore/moore3-8-99.asp (680 words)

	Allen and Unwin - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In it Matthew Collings, known for his TV programmes and books about new art, tells you how to look at the old masters.
		The last one didn't punch quite so high, but in him Collings sees a principle of adapting your understanding and admiration for what seems higher and greater than yourself- he achievements of the past- to your own sense of what is alive and real.
		Matthew Collings is an artist, an art historian and cultural critic who writes for various newspapers and magazines.
	www.allenandunwin.com /Bookseller/product.asp?ISBN=0297646710 (355 words)

	Observer \| Give me Titian, not Tracey
		Like them, Collings was a character, and the force of his personality, his funniness and shambling, bearish presence and faff-free delivery - all 'guys' and 'stuff' without being particularly creepy or trendy - was what made viewers take him seriously on TV, first on The Late Show and then on This Is Modern Art.
		Collings thinks Ofili, whom he says is the closest thing to a 'painterly' painter working today, is undone by the Saatchi generation's preoccupations and lack of seriousness.
		Recently, Collings went to look at the shortlisted exhibits, and was astonished to see people queuing for tickets: 'Billions of them with their prams, shuffling around.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4798280-102280,00.html (1685 words)

	Media Guy - Review of Art Crazy Nation by Matthew Collings
		Collings has presented a vast number of TV programmes in the UK over the last fifteen years and also written dodgy books and magazine articles about contemporary art.
		Matthew and Sarah Kent might be seen as the parents of the popularization process having audiences approaching half a million each, Sarah with Time Out and Matthew with the chattering classes who had tuned in to BBC 2's Newsnight and drifted into The Late Show (1989-1995).
		Collings is trying to respond to a backlash against the first two generations of yBa that already happened four years ago and was brewing before that (see Poster Studio, "They're All Going Down," tzk no. 22, 1996).
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/MerlinCarpenter/mediaguy.htm (2555 words)

	Matthew_collings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Collings' style is a cross between Wolfe's and the Warhol Diaries...
		And I do not mean the cover photo where the author, Matthew Collings, has chosen to put a huge picture of himself with an eye...
		In a long conversation with the art critic Matthew Collings, which runs throughout the book, Ron Arad talks about his work, explains his projects and tells us the story of his amazing career.
	books.mysic.com /Author/Matthew_Collings (803 words)

	Brilliant madness in the questioning method - smh.com.au
		Matthew Collings is the art world equivalent of a celebrity chef.
		Nevertheless, Collings is the art world equivalent of a celebrity chef.
		Collings was planning an article on him called "Eyes of the Owl".
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/10/07/1033538892901.html?oneclick=true (987 words)

	Tangents fun'n'frenzy filled web site.
		Matthew Collings mentions Jonathan Richman in his book This Is Modern Art, and if you watched the Channel 4 TV show of the same name you'll have seen him talk about Jonathan Richman on the screen too.
		Collings should have expanded on the Richman thing, and brought in what Jonathan said about going to the Museum of Fine Art in Boston to chat up the beautiful Boston Art students, which would have been fitting because he was talking about ideas of 'beauty' and 'prettiness' and it would have made sense.
		It seems that Matthew Collings has undergone something of a transformation in recent years, at least if his older articles for Modern Painters are anything to go by.
	www.tangents.co.uk /tangents/main/pre-2001/collings.html (1120 words)

	Bulletin - Strictly modern (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Collings, who has charted the rise of the so-called Young British Artists movement of the mid-1990s, wound up a sell-out speaking tour last week with a talk at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art, where his subject was “The Solemn and the Trivial versus the Serious and the Playful”.
		Collings’ witty, plain-speaking accounts of the works of YBA stars such as Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst have done much to demystify art for the general public.
		Pavlovic met Collings at the height of the YBA ferment when she was studying at London’s influential Goldsmiths College.
	bulletin.ninemsn.com.au /bulletin/EdDesk.nsf/printing/0320693DEF5BC186CA256C4E0022847B (443 words)

	artshole.co.uk - MOT Emma Biggs/Matthew Collings, Matthew Higgs, Jon Thompson with texts by Jeremy Deller, Colin Lowe, ...
		The three artists that we invited to show work are Matthew Collings, Matthew Higgs and Jon Thompson each for their major roles in the fields of comment, curation and education.
		Matthew Collings chose to show a collaborative piece that he is making with his wife Emma Biggs and so we invited both Colin Lowe and Roddy Thomson, who normally work together, to write two separate responses to the work.
		It was important that all the participants and their inter-connecting relationships were internationally recognised so that even though we were only presenting a slice, up for scrutiny, it would at least retain a high proportion of the icing.
	www.artshole.co.uk /exhibitions/7thOctober/MOT.htm (750 words)

	The Idler, A Periodical v.I,n.36 29 November 1999
		COLLINGS: I like George Orwell’s essay on Dali which I believe was written in the 40s; I don't think anyone has ever been clearer on Dali.
		COLLINGS: I stopped using Sister Wendy after she sent in two unsolicited reviews (in about 1984 or 85 or some time) because the writing was uninformed.
		COLLINGS: Because of my background, my childhood and so on, which was very fraught and difficult, I felt like an outsider for a long time.
	www.geocities.com /Paris/Musee/3740/Idler/vIn36.html (3179 words)

	Matthew Collings page at 'Some Things about Art and Cities'
		Matthew Collings is best known as the presenter (and writer) of the TV series This is Modern Art, and the presenter of Channel Four's coverage of the Turner Prize.
		Matthew Collings doesn't pretend there is one truth, or one way of looking at or talking about art.
		Matthew's newest book, Art Crazy Nation (published October 2001) is a sequel to Blimey, taking a largely delightful wander through the British art world of the past five years.
	www.newmediastudies.com /art/collings.htm (1010 words)

	spiked-culture \| Column \| TV UK, 27 July
		Collings' tone is perfect for conveying casual disdain as he wanders around the Glastonbury festival.
		Collings is unimpressed, and goes on to spend ages waiting for a wacky American artist to yawn for the camera.
		Collings reckons the Marquis de Sade's libertine thinking is pretty much mainstream today, with 'liberal attitudes to sex and marriage, and nothing but mindless sex on TV'.
	www.spiked-online.com /Printable/00000002D1C4.htm (581 words)

	Books: January 25, 2001
		Matthew Collings describes the afternoon when he was looking for a piece of art to put on the cover of his book, This Is Modern Art: "The sun was shining over Hoxton Square in London's East End.
		Every chapter in this book is fun to read as Collings contextualizes contemporary art by examining five main issues in the history of modern art: the myth of genius; the role of the artist to horrify and shock; loveliness vs. ugliness; existential emptiness; and Modern art's too often lame, ironic sense of humour.
		Collings is opinionated, but contagiously open-minded in the face of every trend and every artist.
	www.montrealmirror.com /ARCHIVES/2001/012501/book.html (476 words)

	spiked-culture \| Article \| 'One aesthetic banality is added to another'
		Art critic Matthew Collings on the controversy of contemporary art, and why Perry's Turner Prize-winning pots are mundane kitsch.
		Matthew Collings is a writer and a broadcaster, known for his idiosyncratic and humorous observation of the fraught and sometimes bizarre world of contemporary art.
		Matthew Collings:: I look at these pots and they look like they could have been ordered up from a factory.
	www.spiked-online.com /Articles/00000006E031.htm (1497 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Art Crazy Nation: The Post-Blimey London Art World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Matthew Collings' amusing and readable take on the British art world in Art Crazy Nation is as punchy and as clearly written as we have come to expect from the trendy enfant terrible of art criticism.
		Collings here claims that while the YBAs may well be experts in the kind of cynical image manipulation we now flock to see in such hugely popular settings as Tate Modern they have simultaneously reduced the scope of what good art can offer.
		Tragically Collings' own writing--arch, clever, bombastic but devoid of seriousness, weight or theoretical rigour--mimics absolutely the nescient, one-dimensional shallowness of the art he, rather late in the day, has come to suspect.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1901785084 (522 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| LRB essay \| Is it art: shock tactics of the Sensation generation
		Collings has a vigorous curiosity about aesthetic value and in an interesting chapter called 'Lovely, Lovely' tries to get to grips with the question of beauty: "We know no artists will ever be nominated for the Turner Prize for their contribution to loveliness," he writes.
		Collings ends with a promise that art still holds out "hope, marvels, beauty, a route to transcendent meanings, a few laughs".
		It's a new twist in the long tradition of the grotesque and Collings is right to draw attention to the pleasure-in-pain, in which relish and disgust are coiled together, stirred by Goya's fantastic nightmares: "We feel there ought to be a dividing line somewhere - between art and sadism.
	books.guardian.co.uk /lrb/articles/0,6109,156452,00.html (1981 words)

	Collings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		However, I found myself getting very wound up by some of Collings' ideas, such as continual references to 'ordinary people' as opposed to 'London art people'.
		Collings seems to enjoy using obscure references just so that he can elaborate on them, illustrating a supposedly encyclopaedic knowledge of contemporary art.
		All the jokes are there (many recycled from his regular Modern Painters column), but a lot of the theory and criticism isn't - this is his least critically interesting book to date, but possibly his most entertaining.
	www.btinternet.com /~brain.love/collings.html (278 words)

	It's Not Pretty, and It's Not Art
		The book is highly entertaining and informative, and you may come away from it deciding that Washington politics, compared with the art scene, is a model of civility and moral rectitude.
		The buzz of Acoustiguides, the screechy claims of publicists and the resounding thump of auctioneers' gavels serve to remind us that the story of art since Warhol may be the story of how art has been displaced by the global art industry.
		Collings is aware of this, but he doesn't allow it to spoil his good time.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/books/990926.26solomot.html (987 words)

	Thought For The Day
		Collings was a bit bourgeois and articulate in a world where everyone was posing as a hoodlum or a lout, and being drunk and inarticulate because that's what YBAs were supposed to be.
		Collings seemed always to be leaving the opening early, intrigued, cogitating, not at all drunk, a bit embarrassed.
		Collings is one of the few critics to have pulled it off.
	www.imomus.com /thought200600.html (1901 words)

	Platform: Matthew Collings on Painting's Unlikely but Possible Return as Something Worth Taking Seriously. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Platform: Matthew Collings on Painting's Unlikely but Possible Return as Something Worth Taking Seriously.
		Matthew Collings (alumnus Byam Shaw School of Art) is presenter (and writer) of the TV series This is Modern Art, he also hosts Channel Four's coverage of the Turner Prize.
		Matthew is a practicing artist, writer and general-purpose contemporary commentator.
	www.arts.ac.uk /events/5506.htm (144 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: It Hurts: New York Art from Warhol to Now (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Collings lunges at New York's galleries with the exacting eye of someone who knows exactly the difference between what he likes and what displeases him immensely.
		But Collings is a true art lover, and he writes of artists like Frank Stella, Alex Katz, Jules Olitski, Andy Warhol, Bruce Nauman, Donald Judd, and many, many others with intelligence, deep interest, and occasional awe.
		Collings takes readers along on a romp through New York City's galleries and artist studios and shares with them his incredible knowledge of the subject in a loose, chatty manner that is refreshingly free of jargon and art-speak.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1901785033 (641 words)

	Salon Arts & Entertainment \| "I'm a pure insider" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		English art critic Matthew Collings' book "It Hurts: New York Art From Warhol to Now" (21 Publishing) is a gem.
		A smart and wickedly funny road map of everything from pop to performance, Collings hunkers down with downtown tricksters, the uptown avant-garde and all the painters, conceptualists and taste-makers in between.
		Collings is frighteningly well-informed, not just about the subject of art, but also about its rituals, its silliness, its gossip and, ultimately, its integrity.
	www.salon.com /ent/col/vowe/1999/12/01/collings (806 words)

	Temple of Bacchus
		Matthew Collings, who included Lowe and Thomson’s piece Enthusanasia in Art Crazy Nation Show at MK G, has said of their work that it ''seems to distil that excellent moment when the first couple of drinks kick in and any thought that occurs seems funny, creative and inspired.
		A comprehensive monograph on her work by Matthew Collings has just been published by Tate.
		Writer and broadcaster Matthew Collings discusses the exhibition with the artists.
	www.undo.net /artinpress/1047682800.1047671242.html (597 words)

	Alibris: Matthew Collings
		In his new book, writer Matthew Collings turns his attention to the New York art scene, and applies to it the same keen, unpretentious intelligence and perceptive wit that made Blimey!, his book on the London art world, such a smashing success.
		Her best-known piece is Two Fried Eggs and a Kebab, a work that wittily combines the aforementioned materials with a junk-shop table and manages to comment on not only...
		In this eye-opening study, British art historian Matthew Collings clears the dust off the Old Masters, revealing just how original and subversives they really were in their own lifetimes.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Matthew_Collings (453 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Matthew Collings' follow up to Blimey investigates the New York art scene from a witty and sometimes bemused stance.
		Norbert Lynton contributes a wide-ranging and stimulating essay on the relationship of town and country in the English mind, the tension of order and disorder, the conflict and coexistence of classic and romantic depictions of the landscape from which beauty can emerge.
		David Matthews approaches the ineffable presence of landscape in English music and Kathleen Raine writes on the Platonic, visionary strain in English culture running from Blake and Palmer to Cedric Morris
	www.jacobsongallery.com /index.phtml?page=publications (1061 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Blimey! - From Bohemia to Britpop: London Art World from Francis Bacon to Damien Hirst (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A racy account of the London contemporary art scene by celebrated art critic Matthew Collings, giving a snapshot of the new Bohemia of the 90s interwoven with episodes from the author's own life in London.
		I have absolutely no personal connection with Matthew Collings or his publishers or indeed the 'art world'.
		I read "This is Modern Art" after seeing Matthew's brilliant TV series of that name, and that was excellent of course, but who would have guessed that this slightly earlier work is even better?
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1901785009 (668 words)

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