Twenty-five years after Robert Hughes’ wrote “The Shock of the New”, he goes back to update. But how? “Most of the 1980s artists over whom such a fuss was made have turned out to be merely rhetorical, or inept, or otherwise fallen by the wayside. Is there anyone who really cares much what Julian Schnabel or David Salle, for instance, are now doing? Do the recent paintings of Sandro Chia or Georg Baselitz excite interest? Maybe in your breast, but not in mine.”
Tag: 06.30.04
Royal Opera House Rejiggers Cheap Ticket Plan
When London’s Royal Opera House launched a plan to sell 100 of the best seats for £10 each every Monday – “there was rejoicing all round. Until people looked at the small print: only one seat per customer would be available, 90 minutes before a performance. There was an outcry.” So now a plan to rejigger the deal for next season…
Vandal Breaking Venetian Art
Venice authorities are puzzled over the cause of damage inflicted on religious statues all over the city. “Witnesses reported seeing a man with a hammer climb a decorated column at the Doge’s Palace in the Piazza San Marco and smash the hands of a statue. Similar damage has recently been found on religious statues at other historic buildings around the city. Mayor Paolo Costa said the attacks were the work of an isolated lunatic.”