Kate just sent this link around the R*M team about a rising star on the British art scene disseminating 1,000 works of art around the city tonight (Friday 14th). To learn more, read about it here.
All very exciting i’m sure you’ll agree but switching from art-enthusiast-guy to social-media-guy I noticed how Adam Neate’s project shares many of the KUDOS ideals that we hold so very dear here at R*M: Granted the art is not Knowledgable and the idea of art as Useful raises some serious issues about telos (indeed I wrote my dissertation on just this very theme). However, there is no doubt that Neate’s enterprise is Desirable: his work normally fetches up to £45k, Open: any body can just take home the art they find on the street, and Shareable: there is, after all no charge for the art so in a sense the artist is sharing his work with, well, London.
