What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far far from it but there is no free lunch as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble.
Many art-worlders have an if-you-say-so approach to art: Everyone is so scared of missing out on the next hot artist that it's never clear whether people are liking work because they like it or because other people do. Everyone is keeping up with the Joneses and there are more Joneses than ever.
John Currin's exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance...
Too many younger artists critics and curators are fetishizing the sixties...
Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product Richter 'found'...
When people in stadiums do the Wave it's the group-mind collective organism...
'The Panorama' is also the last place anywhere in New York where the World...
Now people look at 'The Scream' or Van Gogh's 'Irises' or a Picasso and see...
In the seventies a group of American artists seized the means not of...
One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when...
Artists working for other artists is all about knowing learning unlearning...
Our culture now wonderfully alchemically transforms images and history into...
Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone...
In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about...
My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.
The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and...
I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues ' this black comedy...
I was very much into buying contemporary art but I've just decided I want to...
There was a big drive when I was at art school to make you aware of the...