The Other Side Of The Opening
This was a bolt from the blue. I’m pushing 60 and not exactly a svelte Young British Art ingenue–the kind of hot property who seemingly gets offered most of the contemporary museum shows these days. Worse, I’m also an art critic; I pass judgment on other artists’ work. Curators who might otherwise like to show my paintings shy away from it because of conflict-of-interest: it might look like they were doing so in order to get favorable coverage–or just plain coverage–for their other exhibitions....