Jonathan Jones takes exception with those who insist that One and the Other, Anthony Gormley’s Fourth Plinth art project that involves ordinary Britons–randomly chosen–spending an hour doing whatever they please high above Trafalgar Square, is litmus test of one’s cultural politics. He feels that one can be culturally astute and still not like what Gormley has done there:

The less you look at contemporary art, the more unfamiliar you are with its language and its capacities, and the more likely you are to submit to this second-rate artist’s self-serving rhetoric.Continue Reading