Beauty today can be subtle and elusive. It can be found in the LCD sculptures of Tatsuo Miyajima, the subtle light installations of James Turrell or cancer paintings of Damien Hirst. Januzczak, Waldemar goes searching. When modern art is viewed – say, an unmade bed or a pickled shark – it may be hard to see the beauty in it. But is it us, the viewer, that’s the problem? Art critic Waldemar Januszczak thinks that beauty abounds in modern art despite the frequent criticism – we just need to look at it in a different way. Even paintings of human deformity or squares of metal dropped on a gallery floor can move us.

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