Que barbaridad! You lend two of your best Boschs to a municipal gallery in a two-horse

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town in Holland that happens to be the artist’s birthplace, and how do they thank you? By reattributing the works to ‘follower of’ and, furthermore, downgrading a third painting in your collection that you didn’t even lend

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nginx/1.17.10 them. A public spat broke out in […]

So it’s goodbye Cornelissens hello Halfords. Laura Gascoigne parks her brush and tries to follow the instructions for flatpack art, but has the picture upside

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down It’s a dull job being a customs officer, sitting on the border twiddling your thumbs until the next teenage drugs mule comes along.

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nginx/1.17.10 So it must have added to the gaiety of nations when […]

Things have gone rather quiet on the mortality front since queues stretched around the White Cube block in Mason’s Yard for a sight of Damien Hirst’s £50m

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nginx/1.17.10 sculpture For the Love of God. In those days of skulls and diamonds, Paul Wilks wrote a letter to The Jackdaw lamenting the morbidity of contemporary

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art, wondering why two horrific world wars […]

It used to be known as ‘synaesthesia’; now ‘crossmodal perception’ is the scientific term for the ability of one sense to stimulate another. Experiments by Oxford University psychologists and researchers in New York have found links between reactions to sound and smell in the 404 Not Found part of the brain known as the ‘olfactory

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nginx/1.17.10 tubercle’. It

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may sound like […]

   

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nginx/1.17.10                       Another month, another book on the contemporary art economy, this time from an overlooked perspective. The New Economy of Art, a joint publication by DACS and Artquest, looks at the art

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market from the POV of the average artist. Not surprisingly, it finds plenty to puzzle over. […]

Sixteen years ago, I wrote an article 404 Not Found for a short-lived women’s art magazine called Make responding to a complaint on the letters page that only childless women could succeed as artists. Off the top of my head, I immediately thought of half a dozen artists who disproved

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this rule

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nginx/1.17.10 and I interviewed them for a piece called […]

Laura Gascoigne investigates why what was once so very special is now common as muck and comprehensively commandeered by the fat controllers In The Masque of Augurs, Ben

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nginx/1.17.10 Jonson introduces the comic figure of Vangoose, a “rare artist” and producer of masques with a reputation for the

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wildly fantastical. “Now we would bring in some dainty new thing, dat never […]

Laura Gascoigne examines the paradox

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of why most artists’ earnings are below the poverty line while the art market is thriving as never before Another month, another book on the contemporary art economy, this time from an overlooked perspective. The New Economy of Art, a joint publication by DACS and Artquest, looks at the art

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nginx/1.17.10 market from the POV of […]

Laura Gascoigne wades through managerial drivel to consider the plight of museums outside London. Searching for quirky museums for a series in The Oldie, I

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turned up the name of the Astley Cheetham Art Gallery in Stalybridge, Greater Manchester. A recce of the BBC Your Paintings website revealed that its Victorian collection, left to the town

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nginx/1.17.10 in 1932 by mill […]

Laura Gascoigne wonders if the artists who purport to be thinkers are any good at thinking. “I think, therefore I am.” “I

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nginx/1.17.10 think differently, therefore I am an artist.” To traditionalists it may already seem that the entire art world has arrived at destination Hell in a handcart and there is nowhere further to go, but actually the

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journey isn’t […]