But is it art?
A few weeks back, I reconfigured my (very small) office, thus freeing up wall space for the display of art. I fondly imagined nipping down the the Parliamentary Art Collection and picking out a Hockney or two, an Auerbach, a Kossoff, an Uglow (twentieth century British art is my preferred area). Imagine my disappointment to find that the parliamentary art collection has only about three of four rather undistinguished prints form the twentieth centuryt and a lot of nineteenth century cartoons. This is a tragedy, not just for me, but for the nation. The parliamentary arts committee must high-tail it to the Frieze art fair to pick up some twenty-first century iconic art, pronto.