Thursday October 16, 2008
'If the work is free, is it art?'
Sarah Thornton
The Guardian
In the past few years an unprecedented amount of money has poured into the art world. Has it become too commercialised?
Last Sunday night at the Old Vic theatre in London, the heavy hitters of the art world went to watch Drama Queens, a play by the artists Elmgreen and Dragset, in which five sculptures come to life and have an art-historical battle of egos. Tate director Nicholas Serota was there, as were Tracey Emin, Peter Doig and New York power critics Jerry Saltz and Roberta Smith. On stage, Barbara Hepworth's Elegy III flirted with Sol Lewitt's Four Cubes, while Giacometti's Walking Man glided about making existential comments.
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