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1996 Damien HirstAway from the Flock,1994 Damien HirstThis Little Piggy Went to Market. . Sensation Image Gallery Richard BillinghamPhotograph Marc QuinnSelf,1991 Marcus HarveyMyra,1995 Tracey EminEveryone. 1996 Chris OfiliSpaceshit,1995 Damien HirstSome Comfort Gained From the. 1996 Damien HirstAway from the Flock,1994 Damien HirstThis Little Piggy Went to Market. |
Now, he wants to tell New Yorkers what they can look at in an art museum. com, we say that if the mayor doesn't like the First Amendment, he should run for office in Singapore. We can't help thinking that this particular "sensation" has some hidden agendas. Giuliani is running for higher office and is ardently courting conservative voters. Brooklyn Museum director Arnold Lehman is striving to breathe some life into a grand but moribund art institution.
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Now, he wants to tell New Yorkers what they can look at in an art museum. com, we say that if the mayor doesn't like the First Amendment, he should run for office in Singapore. We can't help thinking that this particular "sensation" has some hidden agendas. Giuliani is running for higher office and is ardently courting conservative voters. Brooklyn Museum director Arnold Lehman is striving to breathe some life into a grand but moribund art institution. |
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Young British Artist is yet another marked expression. This kind of terminology transforms what is ostensibly a merely descriptive notice into a piece of propaganda. The words I have pointed up collectively suggest that the exhibition is of the utmost importance, the implication being that if you miss Sensation you will have missed something of great cultural merit. In a certain sense one is simply not free to ignore the exhibition because to do so would be to step outside an all-too-naturalised pattern of the consumption of culture. It would be to commit that most insistently negative of sins, the rejection of that nebulous yet nagging phantasm, fashion. |
A site I really like: http://www.artincontext.org/artist/h/victoria_hanks/