tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post4746056156875306990..comments2024-01-01T17:21:52.555+00:00Comments on Is the BBC biased?: Art-ertainmentCraighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-72454525474065179182013-10-23T20:24:14.809+01:002013-10-23T20:24:14.809+01:00It was certainly entertaining, with lots of good j...It was certainly entertaining, with lots of good jokes and memorable anecdotes. I didn't feel much wiser by the end of it either though. <br /><br />I still don't know how to take contemporary conceptual art, and Grayson's cheerful fence-sitting didn't really help much. <br /><br />My most recent experience of this sort of thing was visiting Glasgow's Museum of Modern Art along with my less-than-impressed family. <br /><br />The exhibit that stood out for me was one that looked like an open umbrella. For all world it seemed just like the sort of colourful striped umbrella you can buy in a shop - a fine, sturdy-looking specimen of umbrellahood that could stand up to a strong, Autumn wind. <br /><br />It could perhaps have been a hand-made umbrella made to look exactly like a mass-produced umbrella, or it could have been - in the original spirit of Duchamp - just some mass-produced umbrella which the artist bought in a shop. Either way, it looked just like an umbrella.<br /><br />The disconcerting thing was that - especially as it was the artwork nearest the entrance - It looked as if it COULD have been an actual umbrella that some museum visitor had left behind - perhaps someone who had just come in out of the Glasgow rain, opened up their umbrella, and left it to dry in the main exhibition room. <br /><br />As it was still raining outside, some thieving type who was in dire need of an umbrella, could have come in and taken it, thinking it was just an ordinary, non-artistic umbrella - just like the group of schoolboys in Grayson's lecture who went to an exhibition of contemporary art and found an installation which included what looked like a pile of sweets and then started eating it, because they really were sweets. <br /><br />A Grayson Perry umbrella might be interesting.Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.com