14 OCTOBER 2000, Page 36

Couch critics

From Mr Bernard Dunstan, RA Sir: Mark Glazebrook, writing about the new Saatchi exhibition (Arts, 23 September), seems to think that there is nothing nowa- days between 'cheeky, outrageous . . . even disgusting art' and 'a diet of safe, uncreative, unsurprising gentility'. A rather poor look- out, if so; but has he really looked? Appar- ently there are established galleries in Lon- don which are never visited by critics from one show to the next, and I can't believe there is nothing worth considering in them.

Perhaps he should get around a bit more?

Bernard Dunstan

Kew, Richmond, Surrey