Antiques Roadshow £1m
The well-publicised secret of the first object to be valued at £1m on BBC One's Antiques Roadshow was revealed this evening. Don't all groan at once! It's a model of Antony Gormley's Flasher of the North (1998). For Goodness' sake! What makes a model of that tosh worth £1m? Here's the model beside my Angel for Art Tutor eight years earlier (1990). I published the first Angel graphic on a shareware diskette Flights of Fantasy in 1989. Ever own an Atari ST, Gormley?
posted by Unknown @ 16.11.08
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2 Comments:
What makes it worth 1 million is only that everyone is told it is so important. It's an investment not a work of art.
Very dispiriting.
True. Another case of the Emperor's Clothes.
Visit the Wallace and Gromit website (my latest blog, title link) for the best of British art, and cheer yourself up.
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