As an artist I find myself increasingly unsure of what is art, what is not, and how to define or even recognise a ‘masterpiece’
ONLY DOCTOR WHO RECOGNISED A MASTER. FOR THE REST OF US ITS MERELY AN ACT OF FAITH.
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Sculpture
FINDERS-KEEPERS AND THE MORAL INDIGNATION OF CULTURAL APPROPRIATON
Appropriation of the artefacts of the past has been rationalised by museums las the necessary preservation of human achievement.
MORAL RIGHTS, MORAL INDIGNATION AND A LIFETIME OF SOOT.
Michaelangelo, though, was somewhat different. Half a millennium after he painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling the then pope decided to have the accumulated candle soot cleaned off. What the cleaning revealed was intense colour. Michaelangelo, being long dead, might well have insisted on having it cleaned sooner if he’d known how little care the Catholic church was going to take of it.
AS AN ARTIST YOU’D BETTER HAVE YOUR LAWYER READY
AS AN ARTIST YOU’D BETTER HAVE YOUR LAWYER READY
THE INHERENT DANGER OF ART
2,500 years ago Plato through his Republic sought to banish the mimetic arts from his notion of an ideal society, in that he recognised the distracting and destabilizing effects of art on its citizens
WHEN HACKING LOSES ITS THRILL YOU CAN ALWAYS TRY ART THEFT
There is no doubt that Rembrandt would have been surprised that he holds the Guinness Book of Records medal for the most stolen work. Jacob de Gheyn III was stolen in 1966, 1973, 1981 and 1983.