A view on the notion that “art is useless” from O’Doherty’s White Cube:

Both abstraction and reality, however, are implicated in that sacred twentieth century dimension, space. The exclusive division between them has blurred the fact that the first has considerable relevance - contrary to the modern myth that art is ‘useless.’ If art has any cultural reference (apart from being ‘culture’) surely it is in the definition of our space and time. The flow of energ between concepts of space articulated through the artwork and the space we occupy is one of the basic and least understood forces in modernism… Space now is not just where things happen; things make space happen.” p. 39

The first thing I read this week, eyes still sandy, still lying in bed, were these wonderful descriptions of the Spectator indignified in the modern art gallery:

“he is a cluster of motor reflexes, a dark-adapted wanderer” p. 41

I wish I could say it set the tone for the week.