― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 05:07 (twenty-two years ago)
:(
― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 05:08 (twenty-two years ago)
― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 05:15 (twenty-two years ago)
― anthony, Wednesday, 26 May 2004 05:33 (twenty-two years ago)
― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 05:38 (twenty-two years ago)
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 05:45 (twenty-two years ago)
― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 05:46 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 07:12 (twenty-two years ago)
So, how sure are we that this isn't some enormous Bill Drummond stunt?
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 07:13 (twenty-two years ago)
It would not surprise me one iota if it turned out to be an insurance scam.
HSA independently reached the same conclusion, ha ha, but he did so with a great deal more glee and derision.
― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 07:13 (twenty-two years ago)
xpost - i had suspected some kind of scam too.
― hmmm (hmmm), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 07:14 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 07:16 (twenty-two years ago)
― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 07:17 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 07:22 (twenty-two years ago)
― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 07:28 (twenty-two years ago)
Arson I would not rule out, mind. And I would completely agree with Kate regarding the workings of art dealers and exhibition organisers being dispicable.
This is a fitting end to a lot of YBA artworks though, to my mind.
― ___ (___), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 07:36 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 07:38 (twenty-two years ago)
It's dumb, dumb, dumb to suggest that Momart (an extremely respected art storage company) are insurance scammers.
Tracey Emin crashed my friend's book launch last night and did not bother speaking to my friend - rude cow - she just stuck to her three useless artworld rentamates in the corner until the freebies ran out. She didn't look like she'd lost anything in a fire, or if she had, she looked like she didn't give a shit.
― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 07:40 (twenty-two years ago)
― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 07:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 08:09 (twenty-two years ago)
― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 08:10 (twenty-two years ago)
When it was suggested to him that Tracey Emin's famous tent was destroyed in the blaze, he said "that would be nice."
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 08:16 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 08:18 (twenty-two years ago)
― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 08:19 (twenty-two years ago)
He's a businessman at the end of the day.
― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 08:23 (twenty-two years ago)
― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 08:24 (twenty-two years ago)
― Momus (Momus), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 08:27 (twenty-two years ago)
― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 08:29 (twenty-two years ago)
― Momus (Momus), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 08:32 (twenty-two years ago)
― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 08:34 (twenty-two years ago)
The social death that can happen to someone who sells something on the secondary market that they ought not to have is really not worth it to most nerdly collectors, as they have to buy their social life from the art world in the first place.
― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 08:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 09:24 (twenty-two years ago)
(or Tim, are you arguing that ALL art is, by its very definition, precious?)
― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 09:31 (twenty-two years ago)
Name names please. What deserves burning?
― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 09:36 (twenty-two years ago)
― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 09:41 (twenty-two years ago)
― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 09:51 (twenty-two years ago)
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 09:57 (twenty-two years ago)
Barry, why are you so determined to read complex inferences into the words "really? why?"?
I was asking a question: what deserves to be burned and why? But since you ask, no I don't think everything which is called 'art' is inherently precious. I also think there has been a lot of unseemly smiggering about this from people who are unsympathetic to the art and the art world. The destruction of pieces which many people find / have found exciting / inspiring is not something to be celebrated, surely? (x-post obv).
― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 10:02 (twenty-two years ago)
― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 10:05 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 10:07 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 10:10 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 10:13 (twenty-two years ago)
I thought he was just calling people out on ill-informed pontification, personally.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 10:14 (twenty-two years ago)
Obviously they were 'making a point', but it was totally banal. Disposability of art=so 1964.
― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 10:15 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 10:19 (twenty-two years ago)
― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 10:20 (twenty-two years ago)
Say you're a collector and have purchased a piece of yBa from the artist's gallery. If you as the collector take it to Sotheby's and sell the piece on yourself, you have entered the secondary market. The only person who does not suffer for doing this is Elton John, because when he has one of his yard sales at least he turns over the cash to AIDS research.
Gallerists like to maintain value for their artists and one of the ways they do this is by selling to particular collectors. If the collector sells on the work to somewhere obscure, or not to a museum, that's a bad thing for the artist, especially if the collector sells that bit too soon and adversely affects prices. There are many, many collectors who have more oomph in the market than Saatchi and these are the ones even more actively courted by gallerists.
― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 10:20 (twenty-two years ago)
I can't see why my point about immortality was irrelevant, because you seemed to be saying that disposability = insignificance.
Do you really want artists to be deadly serious about their Great Works all the time? Or are you simply going to hate on the Chapmans whatever they say?
― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 10:23 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 10:25 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 27 May 2004 09:32 (twenty-two years ago)
― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 27 May 2004 09:35 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 27 May 2004 09:39 (twenty-two years ago)
― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 27 May 2004 09:39 (twenty-two years ago)
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 27 May 2004 09:41 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 27 May 2004 09:42 (twenty-two years ago)
― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 27 May 2004 09:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― m. (mitchlnw), Thursday, 27 May 2004 09:52 (twenty-two years ago)
The subject itself is interesting, human bones and guts and musculature, and this was like a pop-art reading of human biology (which itself bounces off the context of Hirst's famous dead animal work). Most of Hirst's stuff touches on mortality and the fragile flesh and seeing a huge metallic fragile flesh was kind of exciting.
It really, genuinely made me gasp when I saw it, and I'd already seen pictures of it in the papers.
There you go. Low quality art reviews by the yard, I got 'em.
― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 27 May 2004 09:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 27 May 2004 10:09 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 27 May 2004 10:10 (twenty-two years ago)
― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 27 May 2004 10:15 (twenty-two years ago)
― chris (chris), Thursday, 27 May 2004 10:16 (twenty-two years ago)
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 27 May 2004 10:16 (twenty-two years ago)
I should add that issues of craft and 'originality' aren't important to me.
x-post the robots thing sounds good.
― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 27 May 2004 10:20 (twenty-two years ago)
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 27 May 2004 10:21 (twenty-two years ago)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1315000/images/_1316230_warhol_300.jpg
― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 27 May 2004 10:22 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 27 May 2004 10:22 (twenty-two years ago)
― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 27 May 2004 10:29 (twenty-two years ago)
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 27 May 2004 10:33 (twenty-two years ago)
― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 27 May 2004 10:34 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 27 May 2004 10:42 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 27 May 2004 10:42 (twenty-two years ago)
http://peter.wreck.org/pictures/europe/oxf_kebabvan.jpg
― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 27 May 2004 10:44 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 27 May 2004 10:45 (twenty-two years ago)
Other questions of the rights and wrongs of responses to the fire (about which I don't know much) may be a separate issue. This is just an ENC clarification. All employees may now re-enter the building. Thank you for your patience.
― the firefox, Thursday, 27 May 2004 10:50 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 27 May 2004 10:54 (twenty-two years ago)
Nipper: remember - don't smoke.
― the firefox, Thursday, 27 May 2004 11:02 (twenty-two years ago)
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 27 May 2004 11:34 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dickerson Pike (Dickerson Pike), Thursday, 27 May 2004 11:45 (twenty-two years ago)
― the bluefox, Thursday, 27 May 2004 11:47 (twenty-two years ago)
― chris (chris), Thursday, 27 May 2004 11:47 (twenty-two years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 27 May 2004 11:48 (twenty-two years ago)
No, Saatchi's's like the Jesuits. Get 'em at 7k and they're yours for life.
― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 27 May 2004 11:48 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dickerson Pike (Dickerson Pike), Thursday, 27 May 2004 11:57 (twenty-two years ago)
― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 27 May 2004 11:58 (twenty-two years ago)
Can anyone explain something to me? This is from the Windy-pedant...
Robert Read, an art underwriter with Robert Hiscox, Europe's leading insurer of fine art, said it was the worst single loss in Britain since £100m of art was destroyed in 1991.
What happened in 1991?
― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 27 May 2004 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)
― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 27 May 2004 12:15 (twenty-two years ago)
― anthony, Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)
This warehouse was apparently between 5 and 10% of MOMART's space, so it's quite possible they store HRH's stuff without it having been affected in this fire.
― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)
― the firefox, Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)
Tracey emin - "Camp Fire"Damien Hirst - "Flamaldehyde"etc.
― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)
now try one for america, yBa wouldnt of existed as a movement w/o the adman
― anthony, Thursday, 27 May 2004 16:13 (twenty-two years ago)
― Layna Andersen (Layna Andersen), Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:51 (twenty-two years ago)
There was a WWII war memorial inside, from a post office building, which had been passed onto another museum with a view to finally putting it on exhibition. It'll be interesting to see what the heat's done to the stone and brass...
― Vicky (Vicky), Friday, 28 May 2004 09:55 (twenty-two years ago)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1226659,00.html
― Vicky (Vicky), Friday, 28 May 2004 09:59 (twenty-two years ago)
― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 28 May 2004 15:26 (twenty-two years ago)
Except I don't really know what great art is, obv.
Her grief = my joy is a bit harsh on me maybe...
― Tim (Tim), Friday, 28 May 2004 15:35 (twenty-two years ago)
― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 28 May 2004 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)
In those terms, I guess what I'm saying is the gleee at destruction feels to me like someone trying to close down discussion and arugument. this is bad => I'm happy it can't resonate. I can understand if someone reading this thread felt like I was trying to close discussion down*, and I apologise if I gave that impression (which maybe what MarkH was getting at upthread), that wasn't what I was after.
I'm against knee-jerk respect and knee-jerk disrespect for stuff, and the around-stuff conversation** is crucial to me. (NB this is a central plank of geezaethetics).
*Calling it 'Fiends'? You beast!
**Even if I'm talking to myself.
― Tim (Tim), Friday, 28 May 2004 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)