Monday, December 5, 2011

Charles Saatchi launches a surprise attack on the art world


Charles Saatchi has launched a surprise attack on the art world in the Guardian saying, "even a show-off like me finds this new, super-rich art-buying crowd vulgar and depressingly shallow." This link takes you to another Guardian article by arts correspondent Mark Brown on Saatchi's view of the buyers, dealers and curators who populate the contemporary art world.
Image: a super yacht moored in Venice for the Biennale