Watched an interesting documentary on BBC4 last night called “The Contemporary Art Bubble”. Now I’ve always known that the majority of the art world is a load of bollocks, unfortunately overshadowing the genuinely good and great artists working today. Just like every part of this greedy capitalist society we live in, everything boils down to money, the rich buying crappy paintings on monetary value created by spin and false demand, rather than actual talent. That’s why you see a canvas painted in just one single colour being sold for millions at Sotheby’s. That’s how Damien Hirst is so god damn rich. I’ve never liked him and the program revealed what I suspected before – that he is just a business man plain and simple, playing the rich for their millions and their egos, as they buy sharks preserved in formaldehyde and cigarette butts installations that his assistants manufacture in his studios. What a load of horseshit!

It’s an amusing sight watching art critics trying to evaluate a blob on a wall, valiantly maintaining a serious exterior, struggling to keep the verbal diarrhoea flowing. Art doesn’t need money to be appreciated and money certainly doesn’t buy you taste. Its best to ignore what goes on in the art world to keep your mind untainted, and free to choose what you like. Like fashion, fame and pop music, behind the slick facade of desire and demand its just money changing hands.