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Untitled blog post from "macro & micro"

  • Writer: Jonathan Moss
    Jonathan Moss
  • Jun 17, 2009
  • 1 min read

I'm not usually one to be shocked by the BBC's presentation of art - but I've just heard the biggest load of drivel on BBC2's 'The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition'. A discussion led by Andrew Graham-Dixon on the inclusion of Video-Art in this year's show: Janet Street-Porter commented that it is merely poor cinema, Stephen Baily that it is poor art . . . Earlier in the programme the film critic Mark Kermode said that video should be reserved for the computer screen and not shown in a gallery. Unbelievable. Is it 1960? (Excuse the anachronisms.)

 
 
 

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