Article19 sees red over ACE’s recently re-launched The Space. Why is over £8m being awarded to the company running it when CEO Alan Davey is on the board and no ACE branding appears on the website?
We've all been there. You enter an art gallery, the space is the size of a sports hall, it's brightly lit and around the edges stand unsmiling staffers in black shirts and trousers, each with an earpiece dangling from one ear so they can receive instructions from an unseen control centre about when to take lunch.
Positioned in the middle of the floor is a single plinth about 4ft high. On top of that plinth is a tiny white box, fashioned from some exotic material, and next to the tiny white box is a card. Written on that card in plain black text is the phrase "musings on the universe - 2001".
Congratulations, you've been indoctrinated into the world of extreme visual art.
It is this world that TheSpace now inhabits. The website originally intended to bring the arts to the masses on the internet and on television has become the world's most annoying art gallery... Keep reading on Article19
We've all been there. You enter an art gallery, the space is the size of a sports hall, it's brightly lit and around the edges stand unsmiling staffers in black shirts and trousers, each with an earpiece dangling from one ear so they can receive instructions from an unseen control centre about when to take lunch.
Positioned in the middle of the floor is a single plinth about 4ft high. On top of that plinth is a tiny white box, fashioned from some exotic material, and next to the tiny white box is a card. Written on that card in plain black text is the phrase "musings on the universe - 2001".
Congratulations, you've been indoctrinated into the world of extreme visual art.
It is this world that TheSpace now inhabits. The website originally intended to bring the arts to the masses on the internet and on television has become the world's most annoying art gallery... Keep reading on Article19