Perhaps it is the love of the arts that Serota is really thinking of when he says ‘Everything has value’. It just goes to show you can’t put a price on love. But hark, what is this at the bow of the ship? Can it really be a figurehead carved to look like his current girlfriend, Lauren Sánchez? Now it sails gloriously around the Mediterranean. (Photo by John Curley) The music of The Jam and The Style Council played on a loop in the respective areas of the exhibition dedicated to each band, which served to enhance the overall experience. The 416-foot yacht at one point looked like it might require the dismantling of a bridge to do so – a cost Bezos was happy to bear. The cycling jersey worn by Mick Talbot in The Style Council’s video for My Ever Changing Moods. News has reached Rakewell that Bezos’s boat has finally taken to the open seas. Perhaps the most astonishing recent exploration of what something is worth comes from a man who knows the cost of most things: Jeff Bezos. These now sell at auction for prices far above the value of the object depicted in them – 200 One Dollar Bills (1962) sold for $43.8 million in 2009. Andy Warhol played a similar, if less personal, game with his silkscreens of dollar bills, sometimes a hundred, sometimes just a single one. While Manzoni might have been exploring how intimately collectors want to know artists, Rakewell is not sure that this is a useful model for someone in a quango valuing the works of a community art centre. Piero Manzoni’s Merda d’artista (1961) springs to mind: a tin of the artist’s – well, I hope you know what – that is valued, roughly, around the price of gold. The Style Council Paul Weller and Mick Talbot of The Style Council photographed by Luciano Viti at the Sheraton Hotel, Rome in 1984. Its often said Paul Weller split The Jam at exactly the right time. So, it was surprising to read Nicholas Serota, trying to defend his recent Arts Council cuts, declare in the Guardian that ‘Everything has value’ – which, to a humble rake, sounds perilously close to the idea that ‘nothing has value’.Īrtists have often asked what value really is. The Style Council disbanded in 1989, with Paul Weller deciding to pursue a solo career, while Talbot would also continue to play, both as a solo musician, and with Weller. The Style Council photo Clare Muller and Redferns by. Your correspondent has always been interested in ensuring the best value in any situation – no doubt this is why art has been a particular obsession. Look out for regular posts taking a rakish perspective on art and museum stories. Introducing Rakewell, Apollo’s wandering eye on the art world.
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