please empty your brain below

You should write puff press releases for art galleries full time...

(damning with very faint praise. Sorry!)
Nice one. Now hoping for a hat-trick of posts on big empty spaces before the week's up. There must be a Crossrail chamber somewhere worthy of a DG visit.
Superb! You have changed the way I look at scaffolding for ever.
I don't normally care for your spoofs, but in pricking the balloon that is Turner-Prize-esque modern 'art', you have really hit the mark here!
I knew I was being reeled in when I read "as befits a masterwork of note" but I went with it. Brilliant as usual and I tip my hat to you.

Although it took a few muddy seconds before I got the Ischan Ging on a second reading. Clever b****r
Oh yes, very amusing. Twin Extinguishers of Fire etc.
Did you listen to Grayson Perry's recent Reith Lectures? He gave a list of pointers to whether something is art or not (post-Duchamp, almost anything could be, but not everything is). Is it in an art context? Was it made by an artist? Is it a limited edition? Is it a boring version of something else? Is it being looked at by smartly-dressed women with expensive handbags, and hip men with small beards and black T-shirts? Is there a queue? Would people notice it on a rubbish heap?

By those tests, this "installation" could pass.

See for example http://museumstudiesleeds.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/reith-lectures-2013-beating-bounds.html
Magnificent. Had me going right up until the final paragraph.
Surely this is a mere pastiche of the similar "artistic installation" that has been available (for private viewing only) at another redundant power station a few miles up river, on which you reported yesterday?
Enough of this art: Bankside and Battersea Power Stations on consecutive days is great.

I like to contrast the imaginative and effective re-use of Bankside by a public sector organisation with the astonishing decay of and indecision over Batterea by the private sector.










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