No. 2770: the masque of art
In the mid-Eighties, the art critic Robert Hughes wrote ‘The SoHoiad’, after Pope’s ‘The Dunciad’, skewering the contemporary Manhattan art scene. You are invited to submit a response (16 lines only, I’m afraid), in the style of Alexander Pope, to the recently announced Turner Prize short list or to the contemporary art world in general. Please email entries, wherever possible, to
lucy@spectator.co.uk by midday on 24 October.
Popean couplets eh? Anyone know what ghastliness is in the Turner Prize short list?