bring me the head of Brian Sewell

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Words are failing me right now, I always thought he was an @rse but this puts the tin lid on it:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2656705.stm

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 12:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Cor sounds like a good show though, and it is a great shame it's not coming to London.

Sewell's just being controversial for the sake of it and is best ignored. I laughed, of course.

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 12:20 (twenty-three years ago)

he's got a point though. why isn't it coming to london?

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 14 January 2003 12:23 (twenty-three years ago)

aren't there enough exhibitions in London tho'.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 12:26 (twenty-three years ago)

How many is enough, Julio?

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 12:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Who says it isn't coming to London eventually. Its touring after all, and being organised by the (currently shut) Hayward - so maybe it will end up there when it reopens.

Or else probably rock into Modern Art in Oxford.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 12:33 (twenty-three years ago)

I love Brian Sewell's voice & was fortunate enough to listen to this debate on R4 this morning. Setting his supposed attitude to people in the North aside, showing this exhibition for 6 weeks each in Gateshead & Manchester, then 3 months in Dublin, (missing London completely) seems puzzling.

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 12:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Mooro = OTM, itinerary here: http://www.hayward.org.uk/hayward/remote/exhibition/nte/cobra.html

Hm, Gateshead Manchester or Dublin, tough one.

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 12:39 (twenty-three years ago)

''How many is enough, Julio?''

there should be an equal amounts of exhibitions in the north and south and if you can't tour some of them around the country (though that's not the case here) then the south should lose some and so should the north.

sewell basically doesn't wanna travel. such laziness on his part really.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 12:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Hm, Gateshead Manchester or Dublin, tough one

Aim for the craic?

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 12:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Do you reckon he just objects to having to pay his own train fare?

It's great fun to read out Brian's comments while putting on his voice, as we just found out in the library...

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 12:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Never mind comparisons with the North, Julio, how many exhibitions is enough?

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 12:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know Tim but since brian tell us that london is the capital of art in this country, I'd say there are 'enough'.

(note: i have never been to a single exhibition in my life)

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 12:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Since my remark was mostly aimed at Tim I should of course have said:

Set the controls for the heart of the craic.

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 13:50 (twenty-three years ago)

He has a point about Londoners perhaps being more sophisticated in terms of being more exposed to more culture in general but, then again, it's a chicken and egg thing isn't it?

― Gordon (Gordon), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 14:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm not actually sure that most Londoners are exposed to more culture. Certainly they have more choice, but I'd like to see the attendance figures (where's my Regional Trends). OK, it prob is higher but that's cause most of the cultural elite live there and skew the sample. And remember that most people in galleries are tourists.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 14:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Londoners != people wot live in London.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 14:38 (twenty-three years ago)

N., are the tourists in the galleries the cultural elite too?

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 14:51 (twenty-three years ago)

He's wrong here, but generally I love Brian Sewell. He's my favourite kind of posho.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 16:01 (twenty-three years ago)

T., some of them. Cultural elite was a stupid phrase. I just meant people who go to loads and loads of things (often because they work in the field). And I meant 'figures', not 'sample'.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 16:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Ha ha, cultural elite, a game where you fly around the Universe trading rubbish opinions about the latest Nouvelle Vague retrospective at the NFT, whilst you try and get your rating up from Hopelessly Naive, via The Odd Good Opinion thru Savvy to the Cultural Elite.

Most people have trouble docking into openings without knocking over glasses of white wine.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 16:34 (twenty-three years ago)

This sounds a bit like the (Quill authored?) adventure game Hampstead

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 16:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Brian Sewell has always been laughable, of course. I do have slight regret that after spending my first 40 years outside London moaning that all the good shows happen there, as soon as I move here they start distributing them around the country. Bugger.

Obviously I still get most of the good shows here, and any particular other city still gets very few, so I know I'm still well off here, yes.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 18:52 (twenty-three years ago)

This sounds a bit like the (Quill authored?) adventure game Hampstead

This sentence excites me on a number of levels.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 01:35 (twenty-three years ago)

bRIAN sEWELL = AN aSSHOLE. wHY dO tHEY pERSIST iN gIVING tHEE sILLY oLD pHART aIRTIME?¿?¿?¿

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 01:51 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v369/colinohara/belm.gif

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 24 September 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

that is beautiful

― Porkpie (porkpie), Sunday, 25 September 2005 02:19 (twenty years ago)

nine years pass...

Anyone read his books? I don't know a whole lot about him but I always enjoy seeing him on tv, even if he can be a bit too cruel in his comments.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 6 April 2015 22:48 (ten years ago)

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