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FAD Magazine, 2022 Do you not feel that sometimes we become so swept up with the hidden meanings of art or with the artist’s identity that we forget to savour the sensation of art itself? While we often think of ‘aesthetics’ as being about the way things look, I want us to return aesthetics to…
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Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, 26 April – 14 June 2013 The years have been kind to Gavin Turk: his work is mature and yet provocative, he has made a living as an artist and not sold out, and the ideas retain an urgency from not being overstated. But who is Gavin Turk and why…
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an extract from The Value Industry, chapter V Damien Hirst is one of the great artists of the 20th Century, but the value industry has seen to it that hardly anyone would concede it. The very mythology that drove Hirst’s prices up has been his downfall: the idea of the superstar artist, born into nothing, growing…
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