With the opening of Charles Saatchi’s new gallery, critics are scrambling to pass judgment on his contributions to the art world. His name is “synonymous with the artists who became known as the Brit pack, who rose to fame in the early 1990s. This was the era when British contemporary art became world famous, when the Turner Prize was cooler than the Brits. Fashions change however. Although art is still hip, it has moved on. ‘It was a really defining time. Lots of precedents were set then; some good, some bad. It was an important time, but it?s definitely a thing of the past’.”