Don't look now: the artists who turn their backs on the world

Stanley Brouwn had books about his work pulped, Cady Noland plagues anyone trying to sell or show hers … even in this oversharing, celebrity-driven age, some artists refuse to play to the gallery
Making art is not enough. Today, artists are expected to promote themselves. They have to rub shoulders with supermodels at the big art fairs and gladhand movie stars at glitzy summer parties. But in his new collection of essays, Tell Them I Said No, the art critic Martin Herbert focuses on the o