The Missing Links
Two words: credit crunch * Barbara Ehrenreich celebrates the 160th birthday of The Communist Manifesto * Thomas Frank on Norman Mailer * Colm Toibin on James Baldwin and Barrack Obama: “Both men set about establishing their authority by exploring themselves and how they came to make it up as they went along, as much as […]
Stuck Inn V: What Is Wrong with Sir Nicholas Serota?
Serota’s rationale is in his 2000 Dimbleby Lecture: “For the late twentieth-century museum director there is no more certain prospect for audience acclaim and sponsor success than those Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists who were so reviled a century earlier.” His identification with artists who were battling in the face of disapproval from the art establishment is a completely false analogy: the art that Serota promotes is the art establishment — a multi-million pound industry of museums, arts bodies, galleries, curators, auction houses, collectors and critics. It’s just that the art establishment is now at odds with the general public instead of synonymous with it.
Charles Thomson on Sir Nicholas Serota and the BritArt establishment.
Yer man with qualities
As wood s lot reminds me, yesterday (5th October) was Brian O’Nolan/Myles na gCopaleen/Flann O’Brien’s birthday. From the wonderful links wood s lot has gathered together to celebrate the occasion, I’d recommend Joseph O’Neill‘s The Last Laugh, for the Atlantic earlier this year: The author pseudonymously known as Flann O’Brien (1911–1966) is the shadowy and […]