Saturday, 24 September 2011

Despicable business at the Turner Contemporary Margate

I am afraid to say that the unhealthy side of contemporary art has reared its ugly head in Margate, contemporary artist Andy Warhol appeared to be handing something wrapped in silver paper to Margate schoolboy Joe Turner and it appears that money changed hands.
Fortunately I had my brush handy so sketched the miscreants, this is the second such incident witnessed in Thanet in two days see http://birchington.blogspot.com/2011/09/despicable-business.html

Both Andy and Joe are exhibiting paintings at The Turner Contemporary’s exhibition “Nothing in the World But youth” which is on at the moment, see http://www.turnercontemporary.org/exhibitions/nothing-in-the-world-but-youth although both of them have produced exceptionally good exhibits, it is such a shame when gifted young people behave in this way.   
at

5 comments:

  1. A J OvendenSeptember 24, 2011 7:37 pm

    Looks like the same guy who hangs around the toilets at Ramsgate Railway Station.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Tom ClarkeSeptember 24, 2011 7:48 pm

    And, according to Thanet Life, in the Beano Cafe, Westgate.

    ReplyDelete
  3. AnonymousSeptember 25, 2011 9:55 pm

    How can you describe Andy Warhol as young and gifted? He's old enough to be my dad, and I'm a grandfather.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Michael ChildSeptember 26, 2011 1:28 pm

    Perhaps Tony there may be room for a history of cottaging in Thanet, I have already done one about the railways in Ramsgate.

    Tom the Beano Café sounds well dodgy to me, possibly his name is Gnasher.

    21.55 the exhibition is about Art and Youth, either because the artist was young when he produced the exhibit, Joe was eleven when he painted the four watercolours of Thanet – although the label in the gallery says he was nine – I am afraid that he would be 236 now if he hadn’t died in his mistress’s house in 1851, mumbling something about the sun being god.

    Peter, and I thought he had only taken a big nap.

    ReplyDelete
  5. RisaMay 18, 2014 7:43 am

    I too was wondering if you named the guy you saw "Andy Warhol" because of some physical similarities, or are you pretending to go back in time - it was all pretty confusing cos you didn't really hint at which it was! ;)

    ReplyDelete

Comments, since I started writing this blog in 2007 the way the internet works has changed a lot, comments and dialogue here were once viable in an open and anonymous sense. Now if you comment here I will only allow the comment if it seems to make sense and be related to what the post is about. I link the majority of my posts to the main local Facebook groups and to my Facebook account, “Michael Child” I guess the main Ramsgate Facebook group is We Love Ramsgate. For the most part the comments and dialogue related to the posts here goes on there. As for the rest of it, well this blog handles images better than Facebook, which is why I don’t post directly to my Facebook account, although if I take a lot of photos I am so lazy that I paste them directly from my camera card to my bookshop website and put a link on this blog.