Alexander Chancellor passes on this item about David Hockney and the UK smoking ban:
The imminence of the smoking ban, which starts on July 1, has goaded David Hockney to speak out once more against what he sees as this gross infringement of our civil liberties. His main point, of course, is that we should not have "dreary people" telling us what to do, but he also plays down the dangers of smoking. Many great artists smoked, including JMW Turner, he said at the opening of Tate Britain's Turner exhibition this week; and some of them, such as Monet and Picasso, lived to a ripe old age. He didn't go as far as to say that smoking could be good for you, but he sort of implied it.Huh, I would've guessed that living in LA would have cured Hockney of this particular prejudice. Or at least inured him to busybodies.
Elsewhere in the UK: Did Damien Hirst's For the Love of God find a buyer? In the Guardian, I comment on what Hirst's piece is not.
Posted by Kriston at June 15, 2007 3:32 PMlooks like you've gotten plenty of comments for your article, so I'll ramble here:
I'll start by agreeing with you.
Hirst's piece isn't really about the diamond trade (santiago sierra's work of 2006 would be a better example anyway)It's not really about aesthetics (when will be stop beating the formalist horse with the conceptual whip!) And let's leave politics to Banksy. That, for me, just leaves bling: how much is it worth, how much will they pay for it. in many ways I think barney's films have become bling, too. How much did it cost to shoot, how over the top can it be. Art always has been bling, but there's a new honesty in saying that.(not new sincerity, but that's another tale)
but is it about gender? i think that might be stretching it a bit. I mean, really couldn't everything be read as gendered? that's where you wanna drive this? oh Kriston.
I think it is unfortunate for Emin that she has to be used as the girl to Hirst's guy. put the glass slipper on the other foot and see how ugly it looks.
Yo baby, sometimes it's just not all about you.
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