The Body in Sculpture
by Tom Flynn
A history of the representation of the body in Western sculpture

Clive Head: Paintings, 1996-2001

by Tom Flynn and Linda Chase
A survey of the work of contemporary British Photorealist painter Clive Head

Artnose

Edited by Percy Flarge

Welcome to the website of Tom Flynn. The site contains a small selection of pdfs of journalism, comment, criticism, and reviews on sculpture, contemporary painting, museums, the art market, stolen art and cultural heritage. 
My published books are listed right and left. 

Contact: tomflynn at bt internet dot com

Sean Henry
by Tom Flynn
A monograph on contemporary British sculptor Sean Henry

Colonialism and the Object: Empire, Material Culture and the
Museum
(Tom Flynn & Tim Barringer, Eds)

museums

The Universal Museum: A Valid Model for the 21st Century? (pdf) An unpublished historical and critical analysis of the concept of the 'universal' or encyclopaedic museum, written in response to the Declaration on the Importance and Value of Universal Museums issued by the Bizot Group of museum directors in 2002.

art market

Winds of Change: The effects of Hurricane Katrina on the fine art insurance industry (pdf) A paper on the specialist fine art insurance industry prepared for the annual report of the TEFAF Fine Art Fair, Maastricht, 2006

contemporary painting

Still Time: An interview with British photo-realist painter Ben Johnson (pdf)

contemporary sculpture

New large-scale sculpture by Jedd Novatt (pdf) Catalogue text for exhibition of work by American artist Jedd Novatt at Musée La Piscine, Roubaix, France, June-September 2008

more:

Who Dares Speak its Name? Deaccessioning in UK museums is unavoidable (pdf)

Faking it The Amarna Princess affair offered a reminder that like the poor, fakes are always with us

Artknows: A blog of comment and opinion, some considered, some shot from the hip.

museums

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