News From Booth-Clibborn Editions
Following its successful publication in June 2011, The History of the Saatchi Gallery was picked as one of the Art Books of the Year by Jackie Wullschlager, in The Financial Times on November 26th
"A deluxe updated edition, newly introduced by Edward Booth-Clibborn, of this century's most significant contemporary art book. So influential has Saatchi been as collector-curator that his taste became world taste; the 700 works illustrated from among thousands he has owned since the 1970s tell this mesmerising tale, amplified by incisive essays from Norman Rosenthal and scorner-turned-admirer Brian Sewell."
Newspeak British Art Now
Patricia Ellis, Saatchi Gallery Curator and author of A Complete Grammatology of Panic in Newspeak British Art Now
will be talking at the Crunch 2010 Festival at Hay on Wye
www.artfestivalathay.org
What's the Big Idea?
3:15pm
20th November 2010
Without a big idea is art reduced to entertainment, decoration and the merely trivial? Should art primarily be a vehicle for ideas or are they secondary to its fundamental purpose?
On the lookout for a Eureka moment award-winning author AL Kennedy, Saatchi curator Patricia Ellis and psychiatrist and writer Iain McGilchrist.
Art as Gossip
3:15pm
20th November 2010
Do we have to see art to appreciate it? Or can it exist as an idea, transferred to us via gossip, books or the media? Critic, curator and Saatchi collaborator Patricia Ellis challenges our assumptions.
On the lookout for a Eureka moment award-winning author AL Kennedy, Saatchi curator Patricia Ellis and psychiatrist and writer Iain McGilchrist. about the ways we experience art.