Art and politics combine. What fun!
Holy coalition! Deputy Prime Minister and Liberal Democrat Leader, Nick “I'm totally keeping all my pre-election promises” Clegg, is to help select works of art for a forthcoming exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery.
Works from the Government Art Collection are to be exhibited at the venerable Whitechapel Gallery from June 2011, and they've enlisted a selection of “high profile” (read: completely unqualified but very influential) figures to select their highlights from the collection. These art world movers and shakers include dress-wearer Samantha Cameron, one-time big shot Lord Mandelson, and the blandest man in politics, Ed Vaizey.
This seems a rather bizarre move from one of London's most consistently interesting contemporary art galleries. One wonders how much this project is simply a PR move, or a savvy way to get the coalition's string-pullers on-side?
As Cathedral of Shit points out: “It is all wonderfully ironic – as of course the Collection is tax-payer funded and so is exactly the type of public spending on art that the Coalition is so hell-bent on stopping – unless of course one gets to ‘curate’ a show of the taxpayer-funded stuff that is, and attend a lovely opening party in the boho East End.”
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