Mixed reviews
'I'm not sleeping, I'm just retiring from public life.'
reviews. Once again, in his review of Julian Opie's exhibition at the Hayward Gallery (Arts, 27 November), Mr Auty brings up his pet hate-word 'Duchamp'. Duchamp' is Mr Auty's way of saying 'I don't under- stand'.
Contemporary art has moved on a long way from Duchamp — Duchamp is merely the point at which Mr Auty got lost.
If a critic is consistently incapable of appreciating so wide a field of contempo- rary art ('What, if anything, does this all mean?' says Mr Auty), should that critic be doing the job? I think you would be doing your readers a great service if you took contemporary art more seriously and appointed a more serious critic.
Peter Chater
Karsten Schubert Gallery, 41/42 Foley Street, London W1
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