Bill Viola/ Michelangelo, Royal Academy: where the mythic meets the meaningless

Hettie Judah | iNews | 26th January 2019

Apparently, Viola was keen to do this show after seeing some Michelangelo drawings. Putting one’s work up against the guy that painted the Sistene Chapel … WOAH!!  You can guess the result. The linked piece is admirably restrained – “some fundamental challenges in this pairing”; others cannot resist nasty: “like the difference between a brilliant mathematician and a spaniel with a calculator.”