LET’S MAKE ART: FROM AN ELECTRONIC-MAIL MESSAGE TO MY FRIENDS IN THE ART WORLD (May 10, 2000)
If you go to the Culture Wars website (www.culturewars.org.uk), supported by the LM Magazine, you will find the results to date of my survey concerning the Last Art Show, scheduled for June 21, 2000. Actually, the site opens with my five survey questions, derived from the anonymous invitation to the event, which can be found on its own website (www.artinternational.com/anonymous). At the same time I sent my survey results as a press release to the LM Magazine, I sent it to Artext, The Art Book, Art Monthly, Art Review, Everything Magazine, Tate, and Third Text, as well. So far, I have heard from Claire Fox, the editor and publisher of the LM Magazine, who sent me to Sandy Starr, the editor of the Culture Wars site, who immediately sprung to action; Sue Ward, the executive editor of The Art Book, who showed some interest, but who had to consult her editorial board; Andrew Wilson, deputy editor of Art Monthly, who wrote that the piece was unsuitable for his magazine; and from Luci Eyers, the editor of Everything Magazine, who also showed some interest, and who offered the possibility of putting the survey on their website. I should add that I sent this piece to Frieze a month earlier, but that the editor, James Roberts, wrote back that he could not use it in his magazine. Also, around New Year’s I sent it to Flash Art, but Giancarlo Politi, the magazine’s editor and publisher, did not respond to my offer. At any rate, although the Culture Wars posted my piece on the web only this week, I have already received several electronic-mail messages on my survey, most notably from Billy Childish and Charles Thomson, the co-founders of Stuckism. The Last Art Show is on the road. God bless the Internet!