Posted on 16/10/02
Echo chambers, artspeak and attitude
My column of two weeks ago on the differences between visual art and fiction apparently caused some ripples in the art world. And nowhere else, of course. I gave a talk at an art gallery at which a curator told me that my column (on "art about art," and what I saw as its nihilistic tendencies) had been more talked about than anything I had written this year. Then an editor, obviously unaware of this dramatic controversy, asked me if I could come up with a couple more things about men's fashion.
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