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Pavilion designed by Spanish architects SelgasCano. 6 STATE www.state-media.com >> DIARY NOTES COVER IMAGE DUDE DESCENDING is nothing new. As long ago as 1926, our good friends the INTO CHAOS Saudis flattened the entire site of the seventh century Al-Baqi AS MAGAZINES and newspapers cemetery in Medina, thought to have contained the bodies face drastically falling circulations, of some of the prophet Mohammed’s early compatriots, the received wisdom is that specialist, because it conflicted with their Sunni Muslim viewpoint. or niche, publications are the only And recently, ISIS militants beheaded courageous Palmyra Dafydd Jones print vehicles to have a future. That Temple scholar Khaled al-Asaad (82) as the West huffs and puts State on a par with Guns & puffs with indecision. Just how many hipsters of Shoreditch Lucy Sparrow, 2016 Photographed in her Ammo – or maybe Worm Growers would literally die for their art is a moot point but the Studio In Essex Weekly. A number of glossy art magazines have tried to terrorists have certainly got the measure of the fat-bellied model themselves on mainstream titles like Vogue, but art world. You might note these canny killers don’t risk the Bath born Lucy Sparrow creates her own parallel their high cover prices and low circulations roundly defeat immediate and merciless military response that destroying world in felt. Her take on ‘feltism’ (similarity to that objective. One of the most provocative and irascible key oil resources would attract – instead opening up channels ‘fetishism’ accepted) invokes the early work of art magazines is small, fiercely independent, and oddly to sell the stuff to the West via Turkey (netting an alleged $1 Claes Oldenburg and her first major triumph was named The Jackdaw. It represents a Herculean labour for million a day). similarly a shop environment. In 2004, Sparrow’s its editor (and everything else) David Lee, who struggles Cornershop lasted the entire month of August. Literally in a rundown corner shop in Bethnal on without even the hope of a glittering prize. However, PAY UP AND BE DAMNED Green, Sparrow made more than 4,000 hand- all might be about to change as The Jackdaw has possibly WHILE ON the subject of sentimentality, the old British stitched felt replicas of everyday domestic goods. found its Watergate moment (©Washington Post) in the chestnut of museum charges raises its head – again! Cue the Here, her seemingly innocent, playful creations form of an ‘exposure’ of arch dissembler and patron saint self righteous and liberal ‘intelligentsia’, springing to their subtly morphed into more challenging readings of the talentless artist, Marcel Duchamp. Art writers and feet to wail about free education and cultural hegemony. If of the banalities of consumerism. Her next event historians Julian Spalding and Glyn Thompson, have these people ever visited museums and galleries in the UK’s is destined to be even more overtly provocative... carried out extended and in-depth research, which appears major cities outside of private view and VIP party nights to ‘prove’ that the famous urinal (Fountain signed R Mutt)1, they would realise they are virtually no-go areas, resembling which catapulted Duchamp the Tokyo metro at rush hour. to fame (and fortune), was Wall to wall tourists gawping, actually the work of one Elsa giggling, gossiping and taking von Freytag-Loringhoven. ‘selfies’ (a mark of the true The last two issues of Lee’s Just how many hipsters idiot) clog every gangway – for STATE magazine have been devoted no other reason than it features HOT & COOL ART to outlining this thorough on their holiday itinerary. Just academic investigation and “of Shoreditch would when the intellectual activity printing the correspondence of art appreciation became part EDITOR DESIGN DIRECTOR between the historians and of the entertainment industry Mike von Joel Anthony Cohen Tate Modern – in the guise literally die for their art is yet another moot point, but [email protected] Lyle Owerko of director, Sir Nicholas having allowed London (for PUBLISHER new york Serota, and latterly Jennifer is a moot point but the instance) to become a theme Karl Skogland Mundy, Head of Collection park for foreigners, why cede Anne Chabrol [email protected] Research. Spalding and our visual arts to them gratis? paris Thompson are very persuasive terrorists have certainly If you don’t think this tsunami Jeremy Levison David Tidball and it seems hard to fault of rubber-neckers is getting out [email protected] berlin their revelations, even if you got the measure of the of hand, consider this: assume DEPUTY EDITOR cannot bring yourself to agree the following were to be open Elizabeth Crompton Anna McNay with their interpretation – a for 24 hours a day, every 365 melbourne [email protected] position firmly taken by Tate fat-bellied art world. days of the year, current visitor ADMINISTRATION Modern. In the latest issue numbers mean that every minute EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Julie Milne (123) of The Jackdaw, an ” 15 people would walk into Tate Alice Cox [email protected] impressive delineation of the sanitary ware manufacturer Modern; the National Gallery (5), the Natural History [email protected] JL Mott and its modus operandi has been uncovered by Museum (10), the Science Museum (7) and the Imperial PUBLISHED BY Thompson. This is pertinent because, in 1964, Duchamp War Museum (2). State Media Ltd. CORRESPONDENTS claimed in an interview that ‘Mutt comes from the Mott london Clare Henry Those affluent, middle class busybodies, who rightly point [email protected] Works [...] and I added (R)ichard which is French slang for Ian Mckay money bags...’. Thompson debags Duchamp’s official claim out that many artworks were gifted on the basis they would William Varley PRINTED BY that he bought the urinal in person at ‘the JL Mott Iron be used to educate and inform the indigenous population, are Georgina Turner Garnett Dickinson Works showroom’ on 5th Avenue by unequivocally proving correct. However, these same culture snobs happily queue for Paul Carey-Kent Rotherham S63 5DL he was lying. Mott’s was only a showroom with no retail two hours at the Louvre (while prey to Roma pickpockets2) facility whatsoever, nor did it carry any stock on site – nor and pay €15 (£10) to enter, thinking themselves well served STATE MAGAZINE is available through selected – more to the point – did it ever provide a style of urinal by one of the world’s great museums. Incidentally, the that matched the . This débâcle is not going to go Louvre operates a long list of pay exemptions for French galleries, libraries, art schools, museums and Fountain away and Tate’s apparent reluctance to fully engage with the citizens. The answer is simple, of course. Let our post other art venues across the UK. FREE pugnacious duo is becoming interesting in itself. Copies of offices sell annual passes to all UK galleries and museums Totally free, State is The Jackdaw can be obtained via www.thejackdaw.co.uk. for a nominal fee (£3?) on production of photo ID and a about new manoeuvres Warmly recommended. UK utility or council tax bill (thus not penalising foreign in painting and the visual born residents). The money is shared out directly among arts – combined with f22, a THE VALUE OF NOTHING the galleries to be used for better staff conditions, enhanced supplement on developments SENTIMENTALITY WILL doubtless be a key ingredient opening times and more exhibitions. Of course, if the Arts in the fusion of art & in the destruction of the human race. The West wallows in Council were not financially incompetent it could be tasked ALTERED NOW PHOTOGRAPHY STATES FREE 17 photography.