Sunday Review

This week, we began the week with Philip Johnson's 'illustrious', a caustic comment on the recent story in which Owen Paterson advised water company bosses to convert “unexpectedly high profits” into “tangible benefits for customers”. 

Then, on Tuesday, Jane Slavin gave us the delightful 'bomb hoax bridegroom' in which she asks what exactly it was that the prevented the unfortunate forgetful groom from keeping his appointment with his would-be bride.  

On Wednesday, Pippa Sherman's  'The Gate Crasher of the Queen Charlotte's Ball' was playful but pithy with her lively depiction of a gatecrasher at the debutantes' ball while, on Thursday, it the turn of Luigi Pagano and 'Rocket Science', a piece which, perhaps, calls into questions the motives behind and the morality of India's rocket to Mars.

Finally, on Friday, we concluded with David Mellor and 'Modern Tart' which brings into powerful focus the lunatic obscenity of the notion that any piece of 'art' can merit the $105 million price tag now associated with Andy Warhol's 'Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)'.

On that note, I have nothing more to say. Hang on in there.

Abigail Wyatt

'Modern Tart'

Hang up that picture

You

Piece of

Shit

You’ll probably frame that too.

“Look this is one of his earlier works,

It‘s thick and long expressing life’s movement “

Verbal diarrhoea

“Let’s bid for that too”

“Don’t you want to send some money to the Philippines?”

“Oh do they do art too?”

No they’re clinging onto bare life

“Oh well go and take a picture of that

And I will bid for that too”

Hang up “that” picture

You

Piece of

Shit

“You will frame that “

©  David R, Mellor

Andy Warhol auction record shattered

David was born in Liverpool in 1964. He left school with nothing, rummaged around various dead end jobs, then back to college and uni. In his 20s he first discovered poetry, starting writing and performing and has done so ever since. I has lived on the Wirral for the past 8 years.