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From: Sahib CAP Category: Art Date: 04 February 2010 Time: 02:08 AM Review: Saatch has lost his mojo along with his waistline. Neo Injun looks good on paper - fastest-growing economy in the world, largest owner of Manhattan real estate ,currently, etc. But this does not translate into artistic excellence - viz - British Empire, Roman Empire, Third Reich and you're out. It's like New China Art. Remember that one? Ho ho ho. Check out the Beijing gallery scene now. Bouncing back on a stimulus package built for Empire of The Senseless? Not any time soon. They bought their way onto the Biennie Old Thing Circuit, into Chelsea Manha ha ha, and Loudon but bottom line is money does not equal excellence! No matter how dedicated your Frankfurt School of Business School ideologues, at best most money corrupts, kills the thing they love most - Respect. Neo-Injun is a footnote to the mad mad world of globalist manoeuvring, pump and dump on markets at their most treasured and traditional. Manipulation at its grandest, most blatent. Yeah the Injuns will do it for you 24-7 and @ one tenth the cost but it will just be a pale imitation, a local variation, in an accent you don't really need. Which is it, inflated nationalism, transnationalism, or a bid for the long term vagrant, the nomad with an agenda to grind? We all love a North London Jewboy made good, promised by the brokers of Almighty and riding the say-so of a marketing myth, but notice how somebody always gets short-changed? That's the prophet motive, Sahib. The percentage kick-back down to initiative and self-interest. Should we let Asia (whatever that is) do our culture for us? Is their culture just as good as ours? What is culture again? What is the measure of excellence, if not oppression?