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The new Supeme Court website Have a look. It is rather good and will be an important hub for information when the Supreme Court starts sitting in October. |
The silly season is coming to an end and people are getting back to the grindstone. Insite Law, which has been active throughout the holiday (I never close), will be doing daily editorial and more detailed analysis of events from next week. The FREE book resource project appears to be on track and is already being used by substantial numbers – students and practitioners.
Here is an absurd story about absurd British art. I’m with the teenager on this one….
Teenage artist arrested for stealing pencils from Damien Hirst
Telegraph: Last year Cartrain was ordered by the Design and Artists Copyright Society to hand over collages based on Hirst’s famous diamond-encrusted skull, For the Love of God , and pay the £200 in profits he made.
In an act of revenge, Cartrain visited Hirst’s installation Pharmacy in July, which was being shown as part of Tate Britain’s Classified exhibition until it closed last month, and removed a few of the rare “Faber Castell dated 1990 Mongol 482 Series” pencils.
The enterprising teenager then mocked up a POLICE WANTED poster offering to return the pencils if his artworks were returned. But Plod decided this was the biggest art theft in recent times – valuing the pencils at £500,00 because the whole absurd installation was worth £10 million.
I really don’t think people have their priorities right sometimes… Hirst is an amusing artist. He is also a very, very, rich 
A rather ridiculous case – but there again, some art is rather ridiculous. The coppers said the pencils were worth £500,000 – what utter bollocks and a waste of public money in police time.
I am thinking about doing an “Installation” – a pile of dung and call it “Dung doing real art – a pile of shit for our times” 2009 Crap on canvas, Charon QC: pissartist in residence in his Medway years.
The trouble is… if Hirst did the same thing and signed it – some prat would come out of a gated residence in Mayfair and buy the f*****ig thing for absurd amounts of money! – or, possibly, do the modern thing and buy it online to avoid having to mix with normal people. Hey… and why not. .
There’s a character in an Ayn Rand novel called Gayle Wynand. He goes around buying up art and locks it up so that the public can’t see it.
Wynand’s role is played by Charles Saatch: his massively over priced patronage of people such as Hirst has the effect of obscuring other art. Effectively removing it from public view.
Anyway, if you want art, there’s the stuckists – they also provide law. Have a read of their exposure of the abuse of Charity Law.
art has always been bought by the ruling elite – the renaissance humanist view – that artistic taste (ie buying what is famous) equates to virtue and therefore makes you fit to rule – continues.
art is somehow a lesser thing if anyone can have it and a thing for the rich and powerful to lock away from the profanum vulgus lest it or they become devalued. and ironically hirst started out defying that tradition and has become assimilated and of course one of the super-rich himself in the process.
come to think of it, that’s a bit like the law, which is owned and jealously guarded by a lettered elite. and even the top publicly-funded counsel is a millionaire by virtue of his championing the causes of the ordinary man. but does anyone actually care? brecht was a tremendous charlatan but his sometimes (often) clumsy work is a constant reminder that the system is shite and exists to keep the rich rich. how many of us go into it for the virtue and stay for the profit?
oh dear, i’m on my soapbox again. nobody needs truth of a friday morning.
Cartrain prints and original artworks are available from his online gallery and artdealer…
http://www.100artworks.com/catalog/cartrain-m-65.html
EDITOR NOTE:
Usually – I delete adverts of this nature – but because I am on Cartrain’s side on this one (as is my right as a free man of this nation etc etc etc) I am going to let it stay.
Good effort to get past Cerberus, my guard dog……. he usually phones me up when ads appear on my blog… today he just had another drink. My dog drinks as well…heavily…. He drinks brandy…. got a barrel from a St Bernard who he roughed up in Switzerland and has never looked back. He has a preference for Camus XO, he tells me….. this is why I buy him a bottle every week when I go to see Mr Sainsbury.
Best
Charon
According to the website there will be a shop in the Supreme Court selling a “range of gifts and products linked to The Supreme Court”. Until that moment I had not appreciated just how empty my life was without Supreme Court-themed merchandise. Now I feel hollow and sad, like panda.
The Chief…. Supreme Court themed merchandise, you say?
That will sort out the thorny issue of Christmas presents. I wonder if I can get a discount for bulk?
I have just produced a work of art which has been stolen by theives unknown, it was entitled “Lincoln” and the work encompassed an area from the northern boundary of Bracebridge Heath to the area known as Scampton. It was my life’s work but do you you think I can get my work back? It was stolen by some nameless thieves on some rotten council.
I have lost all faith in humanity now….
“thieves”, even… (excuse the typo)