Article: Left broken-arted by the desire to laud the rude, the bad and the ugly The majority of modern art leaves me disgusted - not inspired

IT WAS a sad day on The Scotsman arts desk yesterday, when news arrived that the Beck's Futures art prize could be for the chop. From their throne of distilling greatness, the minds behind the beer have allegedly decided that modern art is "no longer cool". And while they are not scrapping the idea completely, they are researching ways to invest in a new accolade for the music industry.

I should clarify that I am actually talking about one member of the arts team: a certain Roger Cox, who poses as our deputy arts editor in between snowboarding assignments. He is quite the fan of modern art, and has spent many a lunch hour raving to our journalist gaggle about Dundee's most recent answer to ...

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