The Daily Mail's coverage of The Turner Prize is almost an event in itself and this year their article's headline epitomises everything I find fun about their coverage. It typifies how tabloidesque newspapers sell articles on contemporary art to their centre-right conservative readership.
A fun satirical film from 1961 with Tony Hancock playing a London office clerk who decides to give up his job to pursue a career as an avant garde artist.
Simon Le Ruez will be in conversation in the gallery with Katharine Welsh, Assistant Curator at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, on Thursday 8 December, 12:30-1:30pm, to discuss the work in his current solo exhibition at Vane.
Brian Eno talks to Jeremy Paxman on austerity influencing art