30th May, 2009 - Critical Success

I read today that since 1980 more than 50 forgeries have been found in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art. That’s hilarious isn’t it? In one of the Western World’s most respected palaces devoted to art, they have for years failed to spot that fifty of their exhibits have, in fact, not been painted by recognised masters, but have been dashed off in the potting shed by a guy called Dave.

I like to think of Dave the Forger, sunning himself in the South of France – on his yacht I hope – with a couple of blondes in tow, while art critics gaze knowingly at his work (let’s face it –if they’ve found fifty so far, there’s a lot more still in there undiscovered).

Critics are tossers. Dave is an artist. And a commercially successful one to boot.