Lecture Date: 2012-02-24

AA First Year Lunchtime Lecture introduced by Valentin Bontjes van Beek.

‘… six weeks ago we were in a cab crossing the Thames on our way back to Notting Hill with Brian Eno and Diego Cortez – we’d just seen the Gerhard Richter and Pipilotti Rist shows. Brian was discussing the contents of a book project he has been talking about for a number of years: “… an attempt to answer the huge unanswered question, the dirty secret of the art world: what is art actually for?”
… I think this would make a really inspiring talk for the First Year students …’.