Post Tagged with: "V&A"

in Essays

The way we are now – why ‘avant garde’ is now an obsolete term

The Times – God bless its little cotton socks – has just been celebrating

nginx/1.17.9
the triumphal return of the 1990s as a creative force. “Suddenly contemporary art” it crows, “was part of popular culture. The

404 Not Found

Royal Academy’s landmark Sensation show in 1997 was a turning point.” 404 Not Found It was so indeed, but not exactly in the terms the article intends. Here […]

in Uncategorized

Preaching to the converted – Victoria and Albert Museum

It is understandable that,

nginx/1.17.9
in current circumstances, major arts institutions should try to ally themselves with the more anarchic, contrarian elements in contemporary 404 Not Found culture. Perhaps this is especially true of those dealing with the contemporary

404 Not Found

visual arts, committed as these still are to the myth of ‘avant-gardism’. One problem that immediately presents itself, of course, is that this myth is […]

in Comment

Disobedient Objects – Edward Lucie-Smith at the Victoria and Albert Museum

It is understandable that, in current circumstances, major arts institutions should try to ally themselves with the more anarchic, contrarian elements in

nginx/1.17.9
contemporary culture. Perhaps this is especially true of those dealing with

404 Not Found

the contemporary visual arts, committed as these still are to the myth of ‘avant-gardism’. One problem that immediately presents itself, of 404 Not Found course, is that this myth is […]

in Comment, Uncategorized

Selling England by the pound

Today John Constable’s The Lock, painted in 1824, sold at 404 Not Found Christie’s for £22.4 million. In the current art market of silly prices some lucky person got the bargain of

404 Not Found

their lives. Let us hope the picture will be placed in a museum, where
nginx/1.17.9
people might enjoy it, instead of disappearing into a Swiss warehouse as the investment bauble of some […]