Gerhard Richer’s exhibition at Tate Modern: Panorama, rather than the communist manifesto. However, after looking at the blurred images, dragged paint, glass and mirrors you are left with a definite sense of everything melting if not actually into air.
First thoughts on exiting: everything is hazy, unfocused and smudged. It is as if Richter is uncommitted [...]

It is of the utmost importance that we repeat our mistakes as a reminder to future generations of the depth of our stupidity.

To quote Robert Peston from ‘Who Runs Britain’ p.255:
“What has happened to corporate pension funds reflects a change in the culture of the United Kingdom, the abandonment of the notion that companies have a moral obligation to promote the welfare of their employees after a lifetime of service. It is part and parcel of the [...]

Often a term used for describing auditors and accountants that now seems to apply to our political leaders too. According to Paul Mason in his report for BBC Newsnight last night (01-11-2011) we need a political class prepared to take risks.
However, you need a vision and conviction in that vision to be prepared to risk [...]

Vincent van Gogh, long held as a paradigm of the troubled painter and tortured soul may have been shot dead by a teenager and not ended his own life.
If this is true and the myth and what it means to be a great artist changes, will we see hoardes of troubled artists baiting ‘gangsta’ [...]