2001-12-13 - 1:11 a.m.
MATTHEW COLLINGS GETS STUCK IN
The Independent on Sunday Diary quotes well-known arts writer, broadcaster and Turner Prize Show presenter, Matthew Collings on the following topics.
TURNER PRIZE: "I hate it. I can't bear it. I think the Turner Prize is the most stupid thing in existence. It celebrates all the frippery and ignores whatever is soulful and serious and profound."
THE ART WORLD: "It's a stupid, illiterate, barbarian scene of success, celebrity and popularity, which is essentially uncivilised, philistine and verging on the idiotic."
THE TATE GALLERY: "There's this fake aura of pseudo-religious values that Nick Serota promotes at the Tate Gallery, where you have to go home and pretend that you were deeply moved by Rachel Whiteread."
