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Originally Posted by Genteel Death
Critics
'' critics are often no more than a parasitic or symbiotic element in a relationship with the Arts Council, the Establishment, or the market''
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I don't disagree with him but in fairness his career involved its own symbiotic relationship with the yBas, the Turner Prize, etc. They were good for him in providing him with an easy target that people were interested in reading about and he (in terms of the persona he cultivated) was perfect for them in allowing them to define what they were doing as 'the kind of art Brian Sewell hates.' You rarely read an article on Sewell without mention of the yBa's, and vice versa.