We are all Bohemians now
We are all Bohemians now
Grayson has to speak to a fund-raising dinner about art education next week so I thought I would give him a few pointers about the value of art school to young people.
They will be cursed with hating most contemporary art whilst their non art-school friends all seem to really enjoy it.
It will help young people decorate their squats in a tasteful creative way on a non-existent budget.
It will give them something to talk about to their contemporaries at work as carpenters, painters and decorators, antique dealers, cycle couriers etc. Their working class contemporaries will be their bosses as they set up the now thriving business when they left school at sixteen.
It will give them a nice hobby when they finally settle down with a partner who, like, sold out to the city.
Their home-made Christmas cards will be the ‘remarked upon’ by their friends and family.
They can tut knowledgeably when the Turner prize short list is announced.
They can cave in gracefully when asked by the primary school to paint the sets for the school play.
They will know where to go to on a rainy day in Tuscany.
The need to be cool will forever stalk them like a fifth, chromed, retro-styled horseman of the apocalypse.
They will become addicted when the Tate website brings out an online game where you can wander round a virtual Hoxton or Dalston with a machine gun picking off semi-successful artists riding past on single speed bicycles.
They will be cheerfully give up their studio when the second child is old enough for its own room.
In short they will have a good life.
Other news.
I was the answer to a question in the Tate quiz last week!
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