2002-01-20 - 10:13 a.m.
IVAN MASSOW/STUCKISTS BBC NEWS SITE
In case you hadn't heard, Ivan Massow, Chairman of London's ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art), which is renowned for promoting the pretentious self-indulgent, craftless tat of conceptual art, has written an article in the New Statesman (21.1.01) condemning conceptual art as pretentious self-indulgent craftless tat. He also let drop en route that conceptual art's most noted UK proponent Tracey Emin couldn't "think her way out of a paper bag".
This has ruffled a few feathers, including, not surprisingly, Tracey Emin's, who called for him to resign. Sir Nicholas Serota who was also lambasted, declined to comment, which is his usual spirited stance on the wrong kind of artistic challenge.
Stuckist response:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/arts/newsid_1767000/1767894.stm
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/talking_point/newsid_1768000/1768307.stm
Report on Massow's comments:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/arts/newsid_1766000/1766846.stm
Report on Massow's comments:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4337112,00.html
