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If it's the episode where they take over a museum and put on the car art show, yeah, saw it a couple of weeks back. Pretty hilarious, particularly the expert at the start who dismisses the entire would-be show as "not art." :lol:

Exactly. Anything man-made can be described as art, given the right silver-tongued orator, or passage of time, or what-have-you. And why not. To elevate one man-made object above others and call it "art," is, in other words, mostly boll**ks, and serves primarily the interests of those who...

Yes, thanks, saw that as well. Yet still, you wonder why matters post-1979 were left unaddressed in the program. The son certainly seemed to be in the driver's seat. The ever-lurking cynic in me wonders whether he even commissioned the doco, which was then sold on to the BBC. The program...

Just saw this show and immediately went-a-Googling for some of the info that was missing, and hit #1 was this forum page. So good on you, I guess. Loved his photographers-as-plumbers analogy, as well as his take on the definition of "art" generally. No wonder he bailed out as art...