The Guardian Examines Critiques of Contemporary Art in Post-Brexit UK

December 29th, 2016

An editorial in The Guardian this week traces the impact and critiques of the right on contemporary art, and explores the accusations of pretension many have leveled against contemporary artists in the country in the wake of the Brexit vote.   “The accusation lurking in the wings is that contemporary art is a complicated con visited on the public by a fanatical set of EU-loving, liberal-elite curators headed by Sir Nicholas Serota, who have set about suppressing floral paintings,” the piece jibes.

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