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Honor Titus’s Moral Imaginations

Klaus Ottmann · 2023

A catalogue essay on painting, beauty and the moral imagination.

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The New York Times
“From Punk Band to Portraits for a King to Gagosian: Honor Titus Breaks Out”
July 18, 2023

Interview
“Honor Titus and Henry Taylor Get Down to the Real Nitty-Gritty”
January 21, 2021
On painting, artistic freedom, and the inspiration Titus finds in Andy Warhol.

Racquet
“Honor Titus x Antwaun Sargent”
August 31, 2025
In conversation with curator Antwaun Sargent about new work, including Louis Malle Practice.

Frieze
“Work in Progress: Honor Titus”
August 2, 2024

Dazed
“Honor Titus’ paintings celebrate the elegant pageantry of athletics”
October 14, 2021
On sporting ritual, historical imagination, and beauty, revisiting Titus’s response to Andy Warhol.

The Week
“Interview with Honor Titus”
Emily Steer, April 6, 2023 (via Timothy Taylor)

Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
“Honor Titus, Portable Prince”
The museum places Portable Prince alongside collection works exploring similar themes, including Barkley L. Hendricks’s Bahsir (Robert Gowens).

The Art Newspaper
“Windrush 75th anniversary marked by series of royal art commissions”
Gareth Harris, June 22, 2023

The Guardian
“Windrush generation celebrated in a series of 10 portraits”
June 22, 2023

British Vogue
“Artist Honor Titus Talks Punk and Painting Ahead of His First London Exhibition”
November 7, 2022

GQ
“Meet Honor Titus, the Punk Survivor With the Sold-Out Art Shows”
March 3, 2021
A profile discussing Les Nabis and Fairfield Porter in relation to Titus’s painting.

Air Mail
“An Interview with the Frieze London’s Biggest Star, Honor Titus”
Bridget Arsenault, October 9, 2021

T: The New York Times Style Magazine
“A Night at the Sock Hop”
November 20, 2020