Description

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Pretentiousness is the engine oil of culture; the essential lubricant in the development of all arts, high, low, or middle.

About the Author

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Dan Fox is a British writer, musician, editor, and filmmaker currently living in New York. Co-editor of "frieze," Europe s foremost magazine of contemporary art and culture, he has authored over 200 essays, interviews, and reviews, contributed to numerous catalogues and publications produced by major international art galleries and institutions. He is a visiting lecturer at the Ruskin school of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University, and has given talks and lectures in the UK and USA at institutions including the Royal College of Art, ICA, Tate Britain, Somerset House, Cornell University, and the School of Visual Arts, NewYork.

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