Michael Craig-Martin at the Royal Academy: an 'inescapably joyful' exhibition

'Career-spanning retrospective' features early avant-garde experiments and immersive digital works

Michael Craig-Martin, Common History: Conference, 1999
Craig-Martin is a 'craftier artist' than his detractors allow
(Image credit: Michael Craig-Martin / Gagosian)

Now 83, the Irish-born artist Michael Craig-Martin has waited a long time for this "career-spanning retrospective" at the Royal Academy, said Nancy Durrant in the London Evening Standard.

Craig-Martin is probably best known as the "beloved tutor" to Damien Hirst and other Young British Artists in the 1980s – a role that has sometimes eclipsed his own not inconsiderable achievements. 

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