Scott Reyburn argues that judgement of the visual arts been transformed by neoliberalism from subjective appreciation to objective economic value.
The big game show: that seems to be the only way television can get to grips with art these days. Just look to the new reality TV series, Next Big Thing, devised by James Nicholls, the chairman of London’s savvily commercial Maddox Gallery, for the latest example, following on from Cash in the Attic and Flog It!
Art on television has come a long way since John Berger’s 1972 series, Ways of Seeing, introduced the UK’s Morecambe and Wise watchers to French post-structuralism. But so, too, has the entire framework of reference within which art is now viewed and discussed.
The big game show: that seems to be the only way television can get to grips with art these days. Just look to the new reality TV series, Next Big Thing, devised by James Nicholls, the chairman of London’s savvily commercial Maddox Gallery, for the latest example, following on from Cash in the Attic and Flog It!
Art on television has come a long way since John Berger’s 1972 series, Ways of Seeing, introduced the UK’s Morecambe and Wise watchers to French post-structuralism. But so, too, has the entire framework of reference within which art is now viewed and discussed.
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