Critics may be heralding the end of contemporary art as we know it, but nothing will change as long as artists worry about how fashionable, rather than how good, their work is

The narrative of Will Gompertz's history of modern art faithfully follows the Serota tendency, claiming modern art always trumps that which it supplanted

I once met Gore Vidal at a dinner party. He was less an intellectual heavyweight and more a drunken and repetitive bore