WHERE ART BEGINS (OR ENDS?)

A “snapshot” exhibition of art from around the year 1900 gives us the good, the bad and the ugly. Was it the beginning of an era? The end? What does it tell us about aesthetic debates then? What does it tell us about today’s? “Much of this exhibition’s ‘new evidence’ turns out to be just bad art. As presented, ‘1900’ is neither ‘twilight or ‘dawn’, but a grey haze that obscures distinguishing marks.” – The Idler