An art hater perhaps? Any links for us, Ed?

Some of the destroyed "artwork" included:

A blue beach hut
A painting made with some cows dung (painting was incredibly un-artwork - just background and rings on the picture)
A tent with the names of the sexual partners of the "artist" taped to the insides of it.

No offense, but since most were 'tate' ones - they are debateable as art anyways. The beach hut (it really is just a tatty blue garden shed - no more, no less, nothing added, nothing taken away) and a tent with your bed friends names on......i would hardly call the priceless. Those can be replaced for little or no cost! Okay - some were possibly art, but another was basically a "warhammer" like scene of figures depicting a scene of nazi's totureing soldiers and stuff from the war etc.

this stinks to high heaven of "insurance scam"

damien hurst lost some of his ' art ' boo bloody hoo, where it turner, constable, renoir, monet or someone's paintings like that, i could understand.

i agree with taw this sounds fishy to me

I am the Master of Disaster!!!!!!!!

Hmph. So it wasn't art, but just "art", eh? *Rolls eyes* Sounds like a shattering blow to the British artistic community.

Yes but what wasn't indicated is what the British Museum had stored there AND the Tate (which by the way has all those wonderful Impressionists you mentioned, ff). I am well aware of the artistic peculiarities of the Saatchi collection.

And yes, the "stench" wafted across the Atlantic and tickled my olfactory nerves, hence the post.

@Esqy: NY Times. I've decided not to bother with the copy and paste. Do you want me to go back to it?

Well, a link would be good.


Well, this is my new sig. Small. Doesn't do any tricks either. No bouncing up or down or spinning... Bah. Youths these days, with all their bright lights and shiny wossnames...mumble....mumble.

that's the best sig EVER! 3 cheers for Corsair!

Go kent !

too big

Yeah, post it up Indy. Remember that we foreigners don't have the benefit of local UK news broadcasts .