The market in modern art is rotten to its core
As they have for twelve years, Stuckists demonstrated outside Tate Britain against the waste of space that is the Turner Prize. I went to pay my respects to the doughty few this morning in the driving...
View ArticleRepeat after me: 'The Emperors are naked'
Damien Hirst – artistically talentless but a showman and salesman of genius – has been asked to design (or “reimagine”) the statuette for the 2013 Brit Awards. (For readers who live a sheltered life,...
View ArticleThe Turner Prize: a bloated, contrived, luvvie-riddled waste of taxpayer’s money
Anyone who watched Channel 4’s coverage of the Turner Prize last night will have noticed Noel Fielding’s hat, which vaguely resembled an ill-fitting bearskin. I suppose if you’re a comedian who...
View ArticleTracey Emin as a role model? Thanks, but no thanks
I’ve been thinking about Tracey Emin’s ‘orrible warning to the government about the bloody consequences if art isn’t part of the core curriculum. Now obviously I’m pleased that rather than rioting in...
View ArticleThe point of the Tate was to bring art to the people, not to promote rubbish...
If you care about art or literature, do yourself a favour and go to the Francis Kyle Gallery in Mayfair. Jumping for Joyce, a splendid exhibition in which 20 gifted artists offer a fascinating range of...
View ArticleGrayson Perry may dress as a woman – but he's got the balls to take on the...
Would the art establishment have given the thumbs up to Grayson Perry – whose first Reith lecture went out today – if he weren’t a cross-dresser who featured scenes of sexual perversion on some of his...
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