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The
Sunday Times - Gordon Brown accused of stuckism. 4.11.07
Link
Billy Childish letter on Stuckism, Gordon Brown & Tracey Emin:
Sunday Times (11.11.07) (bottom letter) and
in the Kent
News (14.11.07)
The
Guardian book - Letters to the Editor 2007
Charles Thomson and Billy Childish have letters in the book. Link.
The
Guardian - Charles Thomson and Billy Childish letter on Damien
Hirst 11.9.07
" It is encouraging that Damien Hirst (Report, September
8) has not only adopted our view of the Turner prize as "a media
circus", where "Turner would be turning in his grave", but has
even chosen to use the same phrases we have employed for the last
eight years. We realise this is a creative act by Hirst, known
as appropriation, which demonstrates yet again that he is ahead
of the game." Link
BBC
Radio 4 "Brain of Britain" 10.9.07
Question: "Largely a reaction to conceptual art, which
movement was founded by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson in
1999 to promote new ideas in figurative painting?" They
weren't actually brainy enough to get the answer, which was Stuckism,
(one person suggested Modernism) but then they didn't get the
answer about Damien Hirst's autobiography either. Question at
20:15. Repeated on Radio 4 (15.9.07)
 The
Times 27.8.07
John Ayto, editor of The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang, defines
new words, including Stuckism, which was on the cover of Times
2 magazine. Link
 The
Saatchi Gallery 25.7.07
The Stuckists have a "universally perceived dodgy founder"
says
Ana Finel Honigman (left), Saatchi online magazine senior London
correspondent, on
the Saatchi
site (25.7.07).
Charles Thomson replies with
a blog
entry and poem (25.9.07)
The
reply vanished twice (see webcitation.org here
and here)
but this turned out to be due to a wider technical fault, not
censorship after all.
BBC
Radio 5 Live, Simon Mayo show
12.7.07
Simon Mayo discusses the Ruralists group with Peter Blake.
Simon Mayo: So were you like the Stuckists. Was this a romantic
version, a romantic vision of what art should be like? Peter
Blake: The Stuckists have admitted that they based themselves
a little bit on the Ruralists, but their anger is different. They're
a different kind of group, but there was a link between the Stuckists
and the Ruralists.
Time into programme: 2:09:07
The Times
27.6.07
Damien Hirst's skull and John
Lekay's skull:
The Times Also mentioned:
Stuckist shark display.
The
Daily Telegraph 1.6.07
Bill Gates for director of the Tate. Stuckists in Daily
Telegraph Stuckism meets
Microsoft - see Bryan Glick, editor's Diary on Computing
(30.5.07), also Blueeyesphoto.com
(1.6.07)
The
Evening Standard 24.5.07
STUCKISM IS NOT SCIENTOLOGY!
The Evening
Standard (24.5.07)
There was some confusion arising from a story in the Local
Guardian that Stuckism is linked to Scientology. It isn't.
Some Stuckist artists are exhibiting at the A Gallery, which is
a normal commercial gallery. Its director, Fraser Kee Scott, is
a Scientologist. That is his own personal affair, and nothing
to do with the Stuckists. Fraser meets Isabella Blow at the 2005
Stuckist demo. Link to A
Gallery.
BBC
Radio 4, You and Yours 11.4.07
Charles Thomson, Stuckist co-founder, agrees with Lewis Biggs,
ex boss of Tate Liverpool, who said, "I'm astonished to find
myself in agreement with Charles Thomson." The agreement
was that art had a value that was not just utilitarian or financial..
Hear the programme on Real
Player (item at 26:00) or just the
art item.
Louisville
Eccentric Observer 3.4.07
Jeffrey Scott Holland (Mid Kentucky
Stuckists) cover story. Link
BBC Radio 4, Front Row 19.3.07
Programme
presenter, Mark Lawson, with David Jaffe, Senior Curator at the
National Gallery in London, and cultural historian, Steven Biel,
senior lecturer on history and literature at Harvard University,
discussed the forthcoming Surrealism show at the V&A, and
the general nature of isms. This is end of the conversation:
Steven
Biel: I was just told that there's something
in the UK called Stuckism, which I have to admit I wasn't aware
of until a couple of days ago, but I looked them up on the web
and they have a manifesto, so there is an ism out there. But one
of the things about isms is that it can be fairly sectarian and
maybe sometimes isms are only known to the ists, who are involved,
rather than known to the larger public.
Mark Lawson: Sectarianism, as you didn't say. We can join
that movement. But the Stuckists are a good example, who are in
fact… They set themselves up in fact in opposition to Modernism
in British art, so they're anti-Tracey Emin, they're anti-Damien
Hirst. But they're a good example, because, as Stephen says, they
have a manifesto. They're desperate to become an ism, but they've
only really taken off among themselves.
David Jaffe: I'll have to confess that they haven't taken
off for me yet.
Mark Lawson: You've never heard of the… well, you see this
shows their problem, David. You've never heard of the Stuckists.
David Jaffe: But we're helping them, we hope. I mean, we
do get a lot of people who like [not clear] paintings, so maybe
they'll all join the Stuckists and there'll be a huge movement.
Steven Biel: There are 19 items on the 1999
Stuckist manifesto which I have in front of me, and I particularly
like item 13: "Stuckism is anti-ism. Stuckism doesn't become an
ism because Stuckism is not Stuckism. It is stuck."
[Well, at least we know what our problem is
now - Ed.]
The
New Yorker 19.3.07
Stuckist demo mentioned in article about the Turner Prize (p 81).
The
Independent 15.2.07
Dan
Belton letter on Manet. Link.
Comment: hope
springs blog (24.2.07)
Kylie
Minogues show at V&A, BBC TV news 6.2.07
Charles Thomson was on BBC TV Breakfast News at 6.40am in a short
interview, and at 8.20 am in a discussion, about the show of Kylie
Minogue's stage costumes at the Victoria & Albert Museum on
the topics of is it art and is it dumbing down? He said it wasn't
art and nobody said it was, and that it was a good job it wasn't
at the Tate because they think anything in the Tate is art by
default. He approved of the show, but thought it highlighted concerns
about dumbing down brought about by government pressure for attendance
figures, as well as the bad example set by the Tate who had dumbed
down with shows such as the slides by Kirsten Holler.
He was first quoted in The
Times (5.2.07: "Everybody wants to get in on the act.
It compromises integrity because the sway of glamour has overcome
what used to be independent academic rigour. We have museums frozen
like rabbits fixated in the headlights of celebrity culture. That
said, I rather like Kylie Minogue so I may be tempted to go along.”
Other coverage (7.2.06) with his quote in New
York Times, Yahoo
news, China
Daily, Today
online (p2). See also Stuck
Inn on 3am, "Kylie and Gina - a Tale of Two Ladies",
part
1: Kylie.
REMODERNISM
IN NORTH CAROLINA 28.1.07
"Montreat - local artist Clay Martin is heavily influenced
by the “remodernism” of the Stuckist movement — an “anti-conceptual”
reaction to postmodern conceptualism. Founder of the international
online group of like-minded artists (www.remodernists.deviantart.com),
Martin is showing his work at Montreat College’s Hamilton Gallery."
Ashville
Citizen-Times
The Daily Telegraph 10.12.06
Nigel Farndale in The
Telegraph defines "a Stuckist, one of those people who
go around wrecking conceptual art." Link
The Scotsman 9.12.06
A Stuckist quote describes Martin "vomit" Creed's installation
of a load of balls as "a load of balls". Link
The Independent 13.10.06
Trustee cronyism at National Portrait
Gallery? Stuckist quote.
Link
The Guardian 7.10.06
Article on the Frieze Art Fair says it is "A time ... for
Stuckists to paint banners in opposition" Link
Daily Mail 19.9.06
The Tate buys a hatstand for £400,857. Charles Thomson:
"'Now we know why the Tate has been so reluctant to tell
anyone how they're spending our money." Link
The Independent:
The Triumph of Stuckism symposium
14.4.06
"Charles Saatchi is about to become the latest victim of
a critical mauling from the people of Liverpool. By way of a warm-up
for 2008, when they take on the mantle of "European City of Culture",
Mersey-side's finest academics are meeting to slag off the secretive
collector. Liverpool John Moores University has announced plans
for a two- day symposium on "the triumph of Stuckism". Dozens
of art historians will use the event to study the Stuckists, a
media-savvy group of artists who were formed to campaign gainst
Saatchi and onceptual art." Link
The
Guardian: Gnarls Barkley 14.4.06
Gnarls Barkley "is also, apparently, the lover of Janet Jackson
and Mariah Carey, Kraftwerk's English teacher and the broker of
a meeting between the Wu-Tang Clan and Britain's Turner prize-baiting
Stuckist art movement." Link
The origin of this notion was a press release concocted by Emerson
Dameron, reproduced on the Atlantic Records site
(click "bio"). It can also be seen on the Gnarls Barkley
blog
on MySpace 24.4.06. The original release reads, "So who is
Gnarls Barkley? Diligent pen pal to Bangs, soul giant Isaac Hayes,
and Violent Femmes ringleader Gordon Gano? Well-kept romantic
consort to pop stars Mariah Carey and Janet Jackson? English teacher
to synth-rock legends Kraftwerk? Croupier at a mysterious annual
gathering in the Bay Area that allegedly draws members of the
Wu-Tang Clan and Britian's Stuckist art collective?"
SAW poetry
magazine publishes A
Failing in My Head - poem about Sir Nicholas Serota
Jan 06
Send submissions or order enquiries to Colin Shaddick, Editor
SAW, 4 Masefield Avenue, Barnstaple, Devon EX31 1QJ. Website:
sawpoet.blogspot.com
Email: sawpoems@btinternet.com
The Evening
Standard: Charles Thomson leaves Stuckism International Gallery
14.12.05
"Artist Charles Thomson, cofounder of the Stuckists anti-
Turner Prize movement, has left the trendy environs of Shoreditch
for suburban East Finchley. He has bought a three bedroom former
workmen's cottage for Pounds 225,000 through Martyn Gerrard. "I'd
grown tired of all that Shoreditch pseudo-trendiness," says Thomson."
Link
Stuckism
on BBC Radio 4 Round Britain quiz 30.4.05
Question 1, connect, please: A painter, who formerly had an
Eminent friend; An architect who constructed a capital; A mountain
which was the scene of a mass trespass. Why is this a juvenile
question?
Listen to it here
(on BBC player).
To hear on stand-alone Realplayer click here
. (You can download a free version of Realplayer here
)
Alternative viewing method: copy and paste this URL into Realplayer
(click File, then Open) - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/shows/rpms/radio4/rbq.ram
The Scotsman
7.1.05
"A
cultured person is someone who appreciates Mozart and Radiohead,
can argue a case for Tracey Emin or the Stuckists, and who understands
what a metaphor is." Link
MATTHEW
COLLINGS IN ART REVIEW ON STUCKISTS Dec 04
If you want to know exactly how the Stuckists are positioned
in the current game of art stances, then Matthew Collings is the
man:
"The drift in the art world for years has been to
come up with pseudo-popular forms for formerly (that is, in the
1970s) genuinely elitist or obscure conceptual art contents. But
you can't get it wrong - wrong popular is punished with sneers.
(Grayson) Perry is right popular like Tracey Emin; both are victims
of abuse, use text, do multi-styles and are willing to be embarrassing
in a controlled context where the codes of the conceptual academy
are confirmed. (The Stuckists are of course wrong popular: they
do the fourth thing but only the first half of it.)"
Well, thank God for that.
STUCKIST
COMMENT ON PHARMACY SALE 19.10.04
Stuckist comment on Damien Hirst's sale of items from failed restaurant
Pharmacy in London.
"The Damien Hirst sale is the art equivalent of the housing
boom of the '80s..... Prices for trivial knickknacks are inflated
out of all proportion to their true worth.'' See Bloomberg.com
STUCKISM IN LONELY PLANET LONDON
13.6.04
Stuckism International Gallery is given its own panel on page
47 of the current edition of the renowned guidebook Lonely
Planet London, with a very clear write-up on the movement,
apart from the minor point that Sean
Hall is not actually a Stuckist - just an agent provocateur
(not the lingerie shop by the way).
'NEW
STATESMAN SEXED-UP QUIZ' 15.12.03
Arts Questions set by Rosie Millard, arts correspondent of the
BBC 1.
What has prompted the first ever age restriction for a display
at Tate Britain?
a Grayson Perry's satin dress
b Jake and Dinos Chapman's bronze blow-up dolls
c Tracey Emin's bath
d A retrospective of nudes by the Stuckists
Whole quiz here
The Independent
(Louise Jury) 10.12.03
"`The Stuckists' are the most strident critics of the contemporary
arts scene as dominated by conceptual artists like Tracey Emin
and Damien Hirst and encouraged by the likes of Sir Nicholas Serota
of the Tate and the collector Charles Saatchi. Charles Thomson,
a founding Stuckist, said he believed we are living in a time
which is the mirror image to the Victorian art establishment.
"The Victorian values were moral, so now we have everything anti-
moral. Victorians had beauty so we have to have ugliness and they
had craft so we have to have anti-craft or rubbish, junk art,"
he said." Link
STUCKISM INTERVIEW ON ABC RADIO NATIONAL
AUSTRALIA 21.8.03
Thursday 21 August (9.10 - 9.45pm time slot, Sydney time) The
Deep End with Francis Leach
Interview with Stuckist Co-founder Charles Thomson (London)
THE
TIMES - HIRST SHARK V STUCKIST SHARK
14.8.03
Damien
Hirst accused of copying - again (well there's a surprise!)
includes - was Stuckist shark the original? Read it in
The
Times
THE
AGE (Melbourne): Sterlac's ear transplant 6.8.03
Body artist Sterlace plans to transplant an ear to his arm. UK
Stuckists are reported to be virulently critical. Melbourne Stuckist,
Nigel Stein, says: "Personally, I have been an admirer of Stelarc's
work for about 10 years. I would be really interested in seeing
the outcome." Link
THE
TIMES: 'Traditionalists mount shark attack on Hirst' by Dalya
Alberge 10.3.03
Article on the forthcoming Stuckism Gallery (London) show
'A Dead Shark Isn't Art' which will display a 325lb golden hammerhead
shark caught by local electrician Eddie Saunders and displayed
in his shop since 1989 - two years before the HIrst version. The
show starts 17 April to coincide with the opening of the Saatchi
Gallery on the South Bank.
TATE
RECOMMENDS STUCKIST CRITIQUE 12.3.03
Two pages on the Tate Britain site headed 'Teach Yourself Turner
Prize Criticism' quote Stuckist reactions, such as that Martin
Creed's work (empty room, light going on and off) exuded 'outstanding
stupidity'. If you don't believe us, read it here
and here.
HITCHHIKER'S
GUIDE TO STUCKISM 10.3.03
Not exactly, but extraordinarily Stuckism is mentioned in the
new M.J. Simpson biography of sci-fi writer the late Douglas Adams
'Hitchhiker', due to Stuckist co-founder Charles Thomson being
a class mate of Adams at Brentwood School in Essex in the sixties.
There is even a photo of sixteen-year old Thomson.
PAUL
HARVEY ON FRONT COVER OF THE CRACK 10.3.03
Paul Harvey, Newcastle
Stuckist and guitarist of punk group Penetration, features on
the front cover of The Crack (March 2003), the North-East entertainment
guide, with his painting Carole Lesley. They say, "his extraordinary
sense of colour and eye for fine composition remain just as intoxicating
as ever."
CHANNEL
M (TV) - MANCHESTER
GLOVES
OFF progamme featured the Stuckist Tate clown demo last December,
the Stuckism International Centre (London) and a studio debate
including Stuckist Charles Thomson and Conceptualist Mike Dawson
of Flux magazine. 2pm every day Mon 17 - Sun 23 Feb
Get Channel
M with a normal aerial Info: tel 0161 211 2916, Email:info@channelm.co.uk
STUCKISTS
ON THE AIRWAVES 10.2.03
Reme Noe and Lee Pearson of the Maidstone Stuckists
were interviewed on BBC Newsroom South-East about their show in
Chatham on 24 Jan. SP Howarth was on Sky News with Richard
Littlejohn on 6 Feb, debating whether an 'artist' kicking an empty
takeaway container down the High Street in Bedford should get
a £12,000 grant. Charles Thomson was on Radio 5 Live,
'Late Night Curry' with Edwina Curry and conceptual artist Mike
Dawson, talking about the same subject. Ella Guru did an
off-air demo interview for Radio 5, just for the record.
DAILY
TELEGRAPH ANNOUNCES ART CLOWN OF THE YEAR AWARD 9.12.02
The Daily Telegraph article on the 2002 Turner Prize winner was
headlined:
A custard
pie for Serota as Turner Prize winner named
It recorded the winning of the prize by some guy who had put
some computers in a black box, and attacks on the prize by Kim
Howells, junior Culture Minister, Charles Saatchi and Tracey Emin,
then duly recorded:
"Members
of the Stuckist Movement, formed to oppose "Turner Prize art",
protested outside Tate Britain, in London, for much of yesterday
dressed as clowns.
They jokingly awarded a custard pie to Sir Nicholas Serota, director
of the Tate Galleries and chairman of the prize committee, for
being "Art Clown of the Year". "
You can read the article here
on the Daily Telegraph website, but you may need to register
to do so.
BILLY CHILDISH
SHUNS STUCKISTS
Dec 02
"He has even
gone so far as to shun the very art movement he was instrumental
in founding - The Stuckists." - The Observer
STUCKISM
IN POLISH 25.11.02
An article, interview, manifesto and paintings by Guru, Ming,
Harvey, Absolon and Thomson appear on
http://www.raster.art.pl
The page has been updated since, but the article on Stuckism is
archived on Google
(scroll halfway down the page).
"Czas na material sensacyjny! Sebastian Cichocki przedstawia
grupe THE STUCKISTS, czarujaco zacofanych rewolucjonistów, którzy
z pedzlem w dloni marza o kolejnym przewrocie w sztuce."
SARAH
KENT OF TIME OUT RANTS
7.8.02
Finally
Sarah Kent has decided the Stuckists exist after all and does
her worst reviewing the First Stuckist International at the Stuckism
Centre London. She tries hard, but we do feel compelled to point
out that Ella Guru did not paint "pussycats, ducks and swans".
The pussycats were by Wolf Howard, in the next section of work
and in a style which a random sample of visitors had no problem
distinguishing from Ms Guru's. SP Howarth was most indignant to
be told he "indulges in soft porn". His response published
the following week in Time Out, said, "I am bemused at
Sarah Kent's accusation (TO 1668, The Stuckists) that I indulge
in soft porn in my work. It is quite obviously hard porn. She
describes my painting as 'A boneless red blob masturbates whilst
sniffing the crotch of a crude purple nude"' Where I come from,
the usual practice is licking." Charles Thomson, who
has condemned Britart, was taken aback to be told he "feigns
hatred of contemporary art", especially when Patrick Caulfield
was cited as an example. He says, "I have no problem acknowledging
Caulfield as a precedent, but, as far as being influenced by "Michael
Craig Martin, the man who taught many YBAs", I have only
ever seen his work in the Tate. I am extremely impressed that
Sarah Kent has realised that my style, which I developed in 1978,
is indebted to his painting 'Knowing', which he did in 1996. Also,
it's not 'puerile humour' - it's reality. A few weeks after I
did the painting, Tracey Emin was shown on TV getting very angry
about an installation because someone had substituted another
pair of knickers for hers. Don't shoot the messenger. I don't
ever recall saying that I considered the painting 'a serious weapon',
so I don't know where she got that from. I just think it would
be funny in a puerile way - if it weren't true. That makes it
a bit sad." See the press cutting here.
IVAN
MASSOW/STUCKISTS BBC NEWS SITE 21.1.01
In case you hadn't
heard, Ivan Massow, Chairman of London's ICA (Institute of Contemporary
Art), which is renowned for promoting the pretentious self-indulgent,
craftless tat of conceptual art, has written an article in the
New Statesman (21.1.01) condemning conceptual art as pretentious
self-indulgent craftless tat. He also let drop en route that conceptual
art's most noted UK proponent Tracey Emin couldn't "think her
way out of a paper bag".
This has ruffled a few
feathers, including, not surprisingly, Tracey Emin's, who called
for him to resign. Sir Nicholas Serota who was also lambasted,
declined to comment, which is his usual spirited stance on the
wrong kind of artistic challenge.
Stuckist
response | Post
a comment | Report
on Massow's comments | Guardian
Report
STUDY
OF TURNER PRIZE WITH STUCKISTS 4
October 2001
A study from
the University of Glasgow looks at the history of the Turner Prize,
and includes Stuckist clown demo and Real Turner Prize Show 2000.
Check
it out
STUCKISTS
ARE THE CRITICS 4
October 2001
A press release
from news agency Reuters says the Turner Prize is 'Condemned by
critics as "an ongoing national joke."' That quote is actually
from the Stuckists Turner Prize Manifesto.
RACHEL
JORDAN'S VIRGIN DEBUT 25
September 2001
We are not
implying that Rachel is a virgin, although for all we know she
might well be, but she has been a regular exhibitor at Stuckist
shows.
Particularly
memorable was her 'Turnerprize Hotel' showing a gaudy pink and
yellow Tate promoting '100 dirty beds/non-stop bland videos/dreary
laundromat' which was first show in 'The Resignation of Sir Nicholas
Serota' at Gallery 108.
The painting
was recently reproduced in Virgin Trains magazine 'Hotline' as
part of a feature on the Turner Prize.
Stuckist
views are printed against the Prize ('what Turner did was paint
pictures...'). Inevitably Charles Thomson's painting of Sir Nicholas
with a large pair of red knickers is also reproduced. (Has he
actually done any other work apart from this, we ask ourselves?)
ADVANCE
NOTICE: LONDON RADIO 1-3AM MON 25 JUNE 18
June 2001
Charles Thomson
has been invited to sit in with Tessa Dunlop on her LBC radio
show in the early hours. Listeners will therefore be treated to
that rare combination of brains and beauty (and Charles Thomson
as well). You can also phone in yourself. Tune to 1152 AM (or
medium wave as it used to be known).
DETROIT
REPORTS 9
May 2001
"Stuckists
stick to bucking art establishment" Stuckist book launch in
the Detroit News. (and Mr Sewell's comments).
4
May 2001
DON'T
MISS THIS PROGRAMME! ARTVERTISING
- CHANNEL 4 TV
3.55-4.25
am (note: AM) Friday 4 May On
Charles Saatchi. Features
the Stuckists and 'Art or Arse'
ART
REBELS TAKE ON SMITH ON POLLING DAY 12
April 2001
That was the
headline in the Evening Standard Londoner's Diary today. It announced
that Stuckist co-founder Charles Thomson was to stand in the next
General Election against Culture Secretary Chris Smith in the
South Islington and Finsbury constituency.
Thomson alleges
(although this is nothing new for readers of this site - or Jackdaw
magazine) that there are "people on Arts Council panels awarding
taxpayers money to galleries which display works of art by people
on the panels".
He also challenges
the Culture Secretary to a debate on such issues, which the government's
failure to address is condemned as "another example of Labour
sleeze".
THE
BIG ISSUE: STUCKISTS V LOUISA BUCK (WHO'S SHE AGAIN?)
9 March 2001
The 5 February
issue of The Big Issue (the magazine sold by the homeless, just
in case anybody didn't know)kindly features a whole page on the
Stuckists.
It includes
a bold colour print of Ella Guru's 'Divine' which is rapidly becoming
a Stuckist icon and is actually called 'The Long Island Iced Tea
Party II' (the wrong title appearing in our book and not the fault
of Big Issue, we hasten to add).
The article
by Helen Sumpter is accurate, insightful, comprehensive and well
worth getting. Order a back issue for a mere £1.50 from:
http://www.bigissue.com/london/back.htm
Ah yes, that
Louisa Buck makes an appearance as the mandatory other side of
the argument. Here's what she has to say (our comments in square
brackets): "The Tate isn't a seething mass of work by Hirst, Emin
and Lucas [never said it was, although on a recent visit there
were three Emin videos playing and not one work by, for example,
Peter Blake on view]...
"I saw the
last Stuckists exhibition and some of the work was just plain
cack [so what exactly was the rest of it then? Some other kind
of cack? Or maybe the rest of it was good? Who knows? Who's was
the plain cack? Have some guts Louisa and name names: we promise
to publish your analysis in full, so you can go down in art history
as the person that called cack cack].
"There may
be a lot of boring conceptual work [ah, we agree on something
at least] but to have a grumpy [vivacious] reactionary [forward-thinking]
movement against it is just daft." [Yes, of course it is - much
better to stay bored, keep in with the in crowd and pocket the
cash. (We hasten to add these comments are generalised observations
and in no way allude to the person of Louisa Buck, who, as far
as we know does not at all subscribe to such behaviour or attitudes)].
So what exactly
can we find out about the character of the elusive Louisa and
her take on the profundity of non-cack? "Never...", according
to an article by her in ES (Evening Standard) magazine last year,
has the following quotation from US Museum Director Thomas Hoving
"seemed more apt". Here then is what art is all about: "Art is
sexy! Art is money-sexy! Art is money-sexy-social-climbing-fantastic!"
STUCKISM
20TH CENTURY ART MOVEMENT - OFFICIAL! ALSO LOUISA BUCK (WHO'S
SHE?) 3
March 2001
Wildldbrush's
Art Today site lists some sixty 20th Century art movements, amongst
which you will doubtless be relieved (and also impressed by Wildbrush's
astuteness) that Stuckism takes its place, (albeit with some glaring
typos in evidence). All the more odd then that Louisa Buck's
recently revised book 'Moving Targets: a User's Guide to British
Art now' fails to even mention the existence of Stuckism.
Come on Louisa (wait for it - dreadful pun imminent) buck up.
So click on Wildbrush
and don't buy Louisa Buck's book (although it does mention Childish,
so flick through it in the shop).
STUCKIST
PANTS FOR LONDON DINNER PARTIES 2
March 2001
ES, the Evening
Standard magazine, has featured the new Stuckist book on the page
'Something for the weekend' (a phrase traditionally followed by
'Sir?' as a barbers' code to enquire if a gentleman require a
restock of condoms).
We are 'Something
Pants' due to the inclusion of Charles Thomson's ubiquitous picture
of Sir Nicholas Serota, Tate Gallery director with a pair of red
knickers, which may or may not be a genuine Tracey Emin artwork.
Anyway, the
write-up begins, "Brush up your dinner-party conversation by dipping
into The Stuckists... " So that's what that lady in the £3000
Prada dress was doing at our show last November.
If you want
to know what to say at the dinner party, the bon mot is "Stuckism
is the backlash against the current Brit Art elite". You
can follow it up with the origin of the name "Stuckism" which
I'm really not going to go into again here.
If you want
to be particularly radical, I suggest (and this wasn't in ES):
"Well of course it's been obvious for some time that Brit Art
has had its day."
STUCKISTS,
ATTITUDE, TWO RANKIN NUDE HUNKS 1
March 2001
The Stuckists
get a half page in March issue of gay mag 'Attitude' next to two
Rankin photos of nude hunks. The ubiquitous Sir Nicholas
Serota pops up again with his red knickers. Maybe the Tate Director
is on his way to new status as a gay icon.
BOOK
REVIEWED IN CREATIVE REVIEW 1
March 2001
Creative Review,
slick magazine for designers and graphic artists, reviews The
Stuckists book on page 88 (not page 92 as has been alleged) of
the March issue. We are suitably honoured. They say, "There's
a lot that's interesting here, including their comment that 'the
Turner Prize effectively turns the Tate Gallery into a state-funded
ad agency for Charles Saatchi, the Lisson Gallery and the White
Cube Gallery' ...it's certainly provocative enough to get you
talking."
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