{"id":1453,"date":"2010-10-26T04:12:47","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T11:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/blog\/?p=1453"},"modified":"2010-10-26T04:12:47","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T11:12:47","slug":"after-the-comet-nothing-but-empty-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/news\/?p=1453","title":{"rendered":"After the comet&#8230;nothing but empty skies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1466\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1466\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/sale-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"sale\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/sale-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/sale-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/sale.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Response to Adrian Searle&#8217;s review of Brit Art Show 7 in Guardian<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/artanddesign\/2010\/oct\/25\/british-art-7-sarah-lucas?\">http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/artanddesign\/2010\/oct\/25\/british-art-7-sarah-lucas?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>    Other painters in the British Art Show don&#8217;t fare so well. Painting here is the weakest link<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s it &#8211; we&#8217;re left with mouldering backstreets&#8230;and cul-de-sacs&#8230;that&#8217;s where contemporary theory has parked painting.<\/p>\n<p>The latest issue of arts review is a triumph of form over content &#8211; The Power 100 issue has so many adverts that it is a challenge to find anything which could be described as an article. This says a lot about where we are now.<\/p>\n<p>Ditto the Brit Art Show &#8211; it may be the best but it is the best in a pretty dull run. A eighties concept that probably has run out of steam anyway. As for cost well the local &#8216;sideshow&#8217; which basically a sedative for the poor neglected local artists consumed over \u00a3100, <a href=\"http:\/\/buycialisonlinehq.net\/\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">pilule<\/a> 000 from ACE so god knows what the full show cost although it probably funded through centre anyway.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t really have any problem with the show it as good\/bad as any these days i.e. it a pretty irrelevant illustration of the latest dull fads.<\/p>\n<p>However I do worry about the post Brit Art Show funding vacuum afterwards (it is the largest fine art event in Nottingham for years). By next summer it could be a lot less exciting round here and the fall out of the comet hitting could leave a Siberian arts wasteland in the current climate.<\/p>\n<p>Most of those who made hay here whilst the sun shone will be on their eco-bikes come the colder weather&#8230;that includes our illustrious curators&#8230;.just wait and see.<\/p>\n<p>By then it won&#8217;t only be severed heads and buckets&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Maybe ACE will be able to let us all eat cake&#8230;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Response to Adrian Searle&#8217;s review of Brit Art Show 7 in Guardian http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/artanddesign\/2010\/oct\/25\/british-art-7-sarah-lucas? Other painters in the British Art Show don&#8217;t fare so well. Painting here is the weakest link &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}