It’s not cool to be depressed by the brazen commercialism of certain facets of the art world, yet you’d have to have a heart of stone not to leave Pop Life, the new exhibition of post-Warhol contemporary art at Tate Modern, without feeling that at least a little part of you had died. Not that it’s all bad, by any means, but the sheer glitzy glibness of it all did make the gurgling Thames, far below outside the café windows, seem more inviting than ever.
Gallery educator/lecturer (The National Gallery, MoMA, Guggenheim NY, National Portrait Gallery, Hayward Gallery), art fair co-director (Sluice), freelance curator (Josh Lilley Gallery), writer (Art Review, Artnet, Triple Canopy, Art21, Saatchi Online; catalogue essays for galleries and museums in Vienna, Antwerp, Dublin), and course leader (for the Saatchi Gallery: A Crash Course in Contemporary Art; for Art History UK: Who's Afraid of Contemporary Art?; educational trips for Art History Abroad and John Hall Venice).
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