How do you set about making a big splash? The question surely crops up when you are about to open a new art gallery — not least when its construction has gone enormously over budget. The director of Nottingham Contemporary certainly found a good answer.
Britain’s latest monument to contemporary creativity opens today. It makes a striking — though, from the outside, not particularly beautiful — addition to a busy city junction. For its inaugural exhibition it brings us not just the work of the nation’s most famous contemporary artist (bar Damien Hirst, perhaps), but the work of this artist at his most famous period. A Marriage of Styles brings together the most impressive assemblage of paintings, etchings and drawings done by David Hockney in