‘MAKING money is art, and working is art and good business is the best art.” So said the Prince of Pop Art in his seminal book, The Philosophy Of Andy Warhol. It might have been 1975, the Factory no longer the non-stop party it had been in the Sixties and Warhol still recovering from his [...]
22/07/2007
Albert Camus: Neither Victims Nor Executioners
by Albert Camus
Yes, we must raise our voices. Up to this point, I have refrained from
appealing to emotion. We are being torn apart by a logic of history which
we have elaborated in every detail–a net which threatens to strangle us.
It is not emotion which can cut through the web of a logic which has
gone to [...]
22/07/2007
Oh, Pablo … you’re so virile
Picasso is Back. You might think the old toreador had never been away but it is some years since he was pitted against Matisse at Tate Modern – to Matisse’s advantage – and much longer since the last big solo exhibition. In the meantime tastes have changed so that Warhol is more palatable than Picasso [...]
22/07/2007
Art challenge cliches on Islam
A new exhibition of Islamic art from across the Muslim world aims to do far more than unite unusual, luxurious and rarely-seen objects.
Organisers of the London event say that they hope the illuminated Korans, the perfume bottle carved from rock crystal and the leaf skeleton decorated with sacred text will change the way people [...]
