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John Moores Shortlist

From:     Thunk
Category: Art
Date:     28 July 2008
Time:     01:00 PM

Review:

The John Moores shortlist has been published and its fun to trace the different streams of the four 
judges, ie the Sacha Craddock formalist abstract Royal Academy Schools stream, the Graham 
Crowley lets hear it for amateur masturbatory incompetence stream, the Chapmans nerdy gothic 
castrated figuration stream etc.The glamour is too much. In an art world riven with self interested  
solipsism, its fantastic that the judges have stuck their necks out and tried to evaluate the work 
formally  and objectively.Whilst one feels that the judges have perhaps gone for a too high celebrity 
quotient and it would have been nice to have given more unknowns a chance.


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