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Fad and fashion fail to stand the test of time; The Hayward exhibition of the Arts Council's Collection illustrates how easily seduced that body has been into thinking today's whimsy is tomorrow's masterpiece.
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The Evening Standard (London, England)
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September 8, 2006
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Byline: BRIAN SEWELL
THE HAYWARD Gallery has a new director, Ralph Rugoff, an innocent from California, who cannot have known that his first exhibition here - of largely familiar works selected from the Arts Council's Collection - could only be greeted by a groan. Poor soul; in a foreword to an entirely unnecessary and expensive catalogue he writes of this random accumulation of whatever happened to be available within each of the past 60 financial years (and cheap and second-rate, or subsidised by other purses), as a museum without walls, a collection of key works democratically selected by leading artists, writers, critics and "a changing cast of curators from the Arts ...
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