Two pieces struck m as I cruised the Telegraph online today, the first a lovely personal view of the new Carsten Holler artwork at Tate Modern by Richard Dorment, the second a feeble waffle by Tom Horan on the new Carsten Holler artwork at Tate Modern.

Essentially five tubular slides, the artwork is the latest attempt to make meaning of the Tate’s Turbine Hall, the vast space that has previously housed art by, amongst others, Anish Kapoor, Rachael Whiteread, Louise Bourgeois and Olafur Eliasson.

In his inimitable style, Dorment brings a sense of wonderment to this latest project by Holler, with all the detail and opinion required to inform and entertain the reader, his prose is a delight. Unlike Horan whose pretentious little blog entry seems to be more in keeping with an old fashioned society gossip page than artistic comment.

Dormant’s delight here

Horan’s horror here

Pictures here

I see from their website that the Stuckists’ show, Go West, has opened at Spectrum London - funny how all the major newspapers’ arts pages seem to have missed this… Famous for their media manipulation, have the Stuckists brought it on themselves? Are critics petty minded enough to ignore them on purpose? I think the latter - those often pretentious wankers are mostly a bunch of smug gits who just happen to move in the right circles.

Good news, also from the Stuckist’s website, is that artist Michael Dickinson who was jailed in Turkey for a collage, is now free.

Whilst I do not subscribe to some of their philosophies, I do like a lot of their work and I wish them well with the show.

Don’t forget the Triumph of Stuckism symposium and exhibition starting this week in Liverpool.

Go West show here

Stuckism website here

Triumph of Stuckism here