School of Saatchi
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- ckentish0
yep i agree - love Matthew Collings. Thought it was a good programme. The Chinese girl (I think she was Chinese) looks like the favourite to me.
- pascii0
"do you want to sell sugarwater for the rest of your life?"
- ckentish0
lukus - kind of agree but artists have always had patrons and the rich have always owned the 'best' art... so nothing new really. It was a very safe investment until last year when it started to behave like every other market, i.e. volatile and unstable... A lot of rich people sold their art last year to regain their losses from the financial crisis, hence reducing arts value. No market is safe shortterm, but property and art are safer bets over long periods of time.
- Horp0
I thought it was interesting. I generally agreed with the selection except for that pretty girl with the bob who is either having a laugh or is arrogant enough to think she deserves to be there.
I think Saatchi's decision not to appear on the show was wise. He's the top dog and doesn't want to undermine his position by camping around on screen like Alan Sugar. It would compromise his integrity as a major art patron.
- WeLoveNoise0
wasnt worth watching then ?
- Dancer0
Just watched ^^^^ 'The Mona Lisa Curse' by Robert Hughes on youtube - really interesting, Robert Huges is a very insightful and intelligent man. I do think he has become a little cynical in his old age but still a very worth while watch
- calculator0
I'm enjoying this programme in a way I didn't with the Stark show. It doesn't treat the viewer like an idiot for starters.
'Saatchi' Himself is irking me more and more. Are we, the plebeian TV viewing masses, not worthy to cast our eyes upon him? Even Simon Cowell isn't so far up himself.
- Doesn't help that he is being set up as some gatekeeper oracle enigma. Plays into his hands, distances the artgjd
- pillhead0
You cannot blame Saatchi for not wanting to be on TV , let face it, it's complete brain dead shit on a very good day, and repeats on it's best days. As for the show well it's the same format as the stark effort, I like the Ghost shed made out of scaffolding, nice idea that worked well in it's environment.
- pillhead0
Small world sometimes, I used to see Saatchi virtually ever month when I was racing Karts in my teen years at Buckmore Park. At the time I did not really know how important he was, but I was always impressed with the sponsorship he had on his Kart, now I know why.
- calculator0
- This guy was a real dick last night.calculator
- umm yeah he's been a dick throughout. Would have suited a punch on the nose from a couple of the others.raskolnikov
- WITH a couple of the others...babaganush
- Dancer0
I only caught the final 10mins last nights. So is it worth watching it again?
- calculator0
Eugenie Scrase...
- utopian0
^
- gjd0
Good antidote for this programme is 'The Mona Lisa Curse' by Robert Hughes (did that book Shock Of The New). Probably my favourite show in recent years.
Talks about the ridiculousness of the art market and it's purpose, how it drives educational systems to churn out artists to feed the hungry machine (ie. School of Saatchi), and how it will end up eating itself.This show pretty much proves how the art market tends to simply fuck things up and ultimately this show is advertising for Saatchi and money in the pockets of the powers that be.
- BIGGESTDOGINTHEWORLD0
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The guy with the glasses who did the ghost huts was an absolute bell end, really annoying that his idea wasn't half bad in the end was hoping it would be shit.
Girl who did the radar thing was hot though
- gjd0
ps.
If School of Design was poor (even Starck ended up rejecting the winner from working with him), this show should be the final nail in the coffin of the Simon Cowell format transferring to visual arts.
- lukus_W0
The art world is bullshit .. arbiters of taste deciding what will have value, so people with too much money can keep their money safely invested.