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DAFYDD JONES: MAUREEN PALEY AT SUDELEY CASTLE COVER v1.indd 1 07/09/2016 11:17 State_22R_Layout 1 08/09/16 23:42 Page 2 The director invites you to attend the exclusive P.V. during Frieze week The 6th of October 2016 from 7pm to 10pm 41-43 Brook Street, Mayfair London W1K4HJ liquidartsystem.com R.S.V.P. to [email protected] State_22R_Layout 1 08/09/16 23:42 Page 3 György Jovánovics Ma^K^eb^_%?khfPabm^mh;eZ\d >QAB;BMBHG=:M>L *-L>IM>F;>K&+1H<MH;>K+)*/ THE MAYOR GALLERY 4 to [email protected] State_22R_Layout 1 08/09/16 23:42 Page 4 State_22R_Layout 1 08/09/16 23:42 Page 5 CAPTURED BY DAFYDD JONES i SPY [email protected] VIOLET MANNERS ALICE MANNERS V & A Summer Party MEREDITH OSTRON EVGENY LEBEDEV KATE MOSS NICHOLAS COLERIDGE STEPHEN FRY V & A Summer Party V & A Summer Party ANISH KAPOOR Serpentine Pavilion PERCY GIBSON JOAN COLLINS EMMA MILLER GEORGIA COLERIDGE V & A Summer Party ELLEN VON UNWERTH Serpentine Pavilion PETITE MELLER V & A Summer Party TOMMY HILFIGER NAOMI CAMPBELL Serpentine Pavilion BJARKE INGELS’ SERPENTINE PAVILION CHESSIE KAY ELEESA DADIANI MEREDITH OSTRON MARTHA DOLAK Serpentine Pavilion Dadiani Gallery ADRIENN ALMASY CHESSIE KAY CARY MARTIN Serpentine Pavilion EMMA THYNN KELLY-ANNE DAVITT Serpentine Pavilion ELEESA DADIANI (b/g) RICHARD ROGERS JOHN DUNBAR JAMES BIRCH Dadiani Gallery Serpentine Pavilion Dadiani Gallery V & A MUSEUM, South Kensington. London. Summer Party. SERPENTINE PAVILION [designed by Bjarke Ingels] Kensington Gardens. London. Summer Party co-hosted by Tommy Hilfiger. DADIANI GALLERY, Cork St. London. Kelly-Anne Davitt Beach Balls and Melons. 6 STATE 22 www.state-media.com 06 DAFYDD V+A copy.indd 20 07/09/2016 11:13 State_22R_Layout 1 08/09/16 23:42 Page 7 >> DIARY NOTES COVER IMAGE WE’RE IN THE MONEY days as chief art critic for the New York IF YOU are reading this then – according Herald Tribune (1949 to 1966), this to our demographics – you are a maker, future Pulitzer Prize winner (for dealer, collector or otherwise consumer Criticism, 1974) tweaked the noses of of art or photography. And thus many emerging art stars to good effect. congratulations are in order. You are So irate was Clyfford Still over one contributing £10 million per hour to review that he bought and posted DAFYDD JONES the UK economy. The Department for Genauer a pair of child’s rubber pants Culture, Media & Sport has produced (pre-nappy era) along with an acerbic Maureen Paley figures that show the ‘creative industries’ note. These are now lovingly at Sudeley Castle 2016 (filmmakers, musicians, artists and preserved in the Smithsonian Archive. American born (1953) Maureen Paley attended Brown University (BA) and others) generate £84 billion a year – The one thing UK ART Ltd currently came to the Royal College of Art in 1977 for an MA. She launched Interim Art in 1984, initially as an artist herself, in Beck Road E8, originally an with the number of ‘jobs’ in ‘creative lacks is an independent, national Acme house. Paley has declared her inspiration as being the early 80’s industries’ up 20% since 2011 to 1.9 painter for $5 million in damages journal of informed criticism – no galleries of the East Village in her home town of New York. She did have a million. Secretary of State, John (surprise, surprise) and a declaration surprise there because, of course, no one brief remove to Dering Street in 1991, but has always been identified as an Whittingdale MP, waffled on: ‘That that the work is authentic. likes a party pooper. Today, more so early pioneer of London’s East End. The gallery survived in the early days thanks to Art Council (and other) funding but continued its programme of success is built upon the extraordinary than ever. supporting British Artists and Paley is today a much respected independent talent which exists in this country, an Peter Doig and his lawyers have already figurehead in the London art world. amazing cultural heritage, the English identified the real artist, a man named language and a tax system designed to Peter Edward Doige, who died in 2012, ETERNAL F[L]AME support and encourage growth in the and whose sister says he did serve time IN MUCH THE same way actors get creative sector.’ Presumably he is in Thunder Bay and also painted. confused with the parts they play by a referring to the lax benefits system, Furthermore, Marilyn Doige Bovard gullible public, artists currently enjoy which allows countless self-styled ‘artists’ said in a court declaration that the the same hagiographic attention. Back to survive well past their student days disputed desert scene appeared to show in 2013, Mason Currey wrote Daily HOT & COOL ART and natural ‘sell-by’ date. Just where a specific, recognisable area in Arizona Rituals: How Artists Work, listing the are all these economic giants from a where her mother moved after a daily routines of a number of historic, sector that also includes dancers, divorce. And there is more. The prison’s creative figures.(1) Here we read EDITOR Lyle Owerko choreographers and [now] programmers former art teacher recognised a Beethoven obsessed about his coffee – Mike von Joel NEW YORK and software developers? In our photograph of Ms Bovard’s brother as while Balzac drank some 50 cups a day. [email protected] Anne Chabrol experience, the vast majority of art world the man who had been in his class Flaubert spoke with his mother PUBLISHERS PARIS fodder can barely scrape a living out of and whom he had watched make the continuously. Daily walks helped Freud, David Tidball their passions and dedication to uncritical painting (teacher’s affidavit). Dickens, Tchaikovsky, Darwin, and Karl Skogland BERLIN self-expression – and neither is this UNBELIEVEABLY, Chicago Judge John Milton – whereas vigorous exercise [email protected] impacted by achieving one of the myriad Gary Feinerman of the United States satisfied Le Corbusier and Victor Hugo. Elizabeth Crompton arts (creative, visual & performance) District Court for Northern Illinois For Kim Kardashian refer to the Daily MELBOURNE Jeremy Levison degrees that tempt the innocent. The decided this dispute could be resolved Mail. The obsession with the minutiae [email protected] Complete University Guide says graduate only at a trial. If this bozo knew of celebrity life has now reached DEPUTY EDITOR ADMINISTRATION starting salaries in professional posts anything about the art trade, he could epidemic proportions, so news that Anna McNay Julie Milne dropped 11% (down to £21,702) have saved all concerned time and a permanent plaque was unveiled [email protected] [email protected] between 2007-12, but that anyone with money because even if the judgment outside the former Bowery home of an ‘art & design’ degree can expect had gone against Peter Doig (no ‘e’) Jean-Michel Basquiat no doubt met EDITORIAL PUBLISHED BY just £14,451 pa – the same research not a single auctioneer or dealer would with dancing in the streets. The marker ASSISTANT State Media Ltd. suggesting that many of today’s more touch the painting – already deemed is part of the Greenwich Village Society Silvia Maietta LONDON [email protected] honest grads will still be repaying virtually worthless! Four years later the for Historic Preservation’s (GVSHP) [email protected] student debts when they reach their 50s. court agreed and kicked Fletcher’s fatuous Historic Plaque Program, a partnership CORRESPONDENTS However, digital designers are much in claim out in part after Ms Bovard’s with a local pizza business. Basquiat Clare Henry PRINTED BY demand (ref: the online shift) meaning damning testimony. Only in America! lived at 57 Great Jones Street for just Ian McKay Garnett Dickinson a graduate starter could earn pay of five years until his overdose death in Rotherham S63 5DL William Varley £17,000 - £23,000 pa. Deborah R Gerhardt, a law professor at 1988. How long art heroes will last if the University of North Carolina has Artevera succeeds is anyone’s guess. WHEN NO MEANS NO commented: ‘So much of the value of This Siena based company has STATE MAGAZINE is available through selected WHILE ON the subject of high rolling art turns on the brand name of the allegedly developed a printing artists, Peter Doig has enjoyed big bucks artist and artists really like to control technique for ‘cloning’ artworks that galleries, libraries, art schools, museums and as a darling of the auction rooms. But the quality that their names are associated replicates the surface, brush strokes and other art venues across the UK. lest the low earning graduate painters with’. If Feinerman had sided with the exact colouring of any painting – (see above) think he has had it all his plaintiffs in this most rare case, it would putting ‘identical’ copies of any work Totally free, STATE is about new own way, take note of Doig’s recent have opened a can of worms whereby a into the hands of the proletariat at a manoeuvres in painting and the brush with what is laughingly called living artist is no longer the final arbiter fraction of the original cost. Over to visual arts – combined with f22, America’s justice system. In a nutshell: on the authenticity of his own output. Judge Gary Feinerman perhaps? a supplement on developments in a former guard at the Thunder Bay the fusion of art & photography. Correctional Center, about 15 hours YOU’RE JUST TERRIFIC AND FINALLY. Tired of being asked north of Toronto, says Doig created HAVE YOU noticed that there are no for Leonard Cohen’s autograph, our It is not a review magazine – it a work there as a youthful inmate.