Punched, insulted and excoriated in song … our critics on the artists who hit back by Michael Billington, Hannah J Davies, Phil Daoust, Lyndsey Winship, Adrian Searle Arifa Akbar, Dave Simpson

In a shocking attack, the ballet director Marco Goecke smeared dog excrement in the face of Wiebke Hüster in retaliation for her review. Yet it isn't the first time an artist has assaulted a critic. Our writers share their worst moments I was biffed on the head by David Storey in 1976 after describing his play Mother's Day as "a stinker". But that rankled less than sustained verbal assaults by Jonathan Miller late i…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:47AM on February 14, 2023

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