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Download Latest Art Magazine, Issue 6, Autumn 2007

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In out, in out, you shake it all about. That’s what contemporary art’s all about, innit? It’s just like fashion – one day it’s in, the next it’s out, one minute it’s sprawled over the pages of every magazine, the next it’s junked or sold on to a desperate, unsuspecting wannabe. So is art now merely another commodity, a flimsy trinket? Does it only need to be as exciting as the next trendy T-shirt design in order to be snapped up by the newest Saatchi-style dealer?

The dirty truth is that the worlds of art, fashion, design and advertising all pimp from the same prayer sheet. Sweet hallelujah. Forget the myth of the starving romantic artist living in poverty, eating paint: most artists dream of escaping their garret and making a name for themselves in the multi-million pound marketplace that is the modern art world, with its attendant media, merchandising junkets, art fairs and celebrity jamborees. Forget the notion that a decent artist needs to wait for several hundred years to pass before their artistic genius is discovered and honoured with international blockbuster retrospectives.

Every young artist today who hopes and dreams of becoming a somebody with a show, needs to run the milk-rounds of private views and to be able to tell their Iwona Blazwick from their Charles Saumarez Smith. In the aftermath of the Saatchi hype – or YBA movement – do artists have any choice but to become media and market savvy?

This issue of Latest Art will explore what happens to artists – and the art they make – when the spotlight falls on them. How does the art they make change and what means do artists have to take in order to preserve their own creative methods and output? We explore the careers of artists who have made it in the art world but whose position within it is ambiguous, awkward, controversial or compromising. What does it mean to be an outsider on the inside? Picture it.

TTFN,
Colette Meacher, Editor
colette@thelatest.co.uk

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• Latest Art is the only magazine covering London, Brighton and the south east dedicated to getting contemporary art in front of a buying audience.
• It is full colour, free and available through galleries, high-end retail outlets, health clubs, estate agents and hotels throughout the area.
• Each display page is dedicated to an individual artist, showcasing one piece of work for biggest impact, with contact details and information on where the work can be seen and bought.
• Arts-led editorial will include interviews, articles, features on collecting and private collectors, etc.
• Includes free gallery listings.
• Latest Art offers competitive rates for artists, galleries and those in the creative industries and can offer special packages for multiple pages across one or more issues.
• Latest Art also provides an online gallery featuring all artists for the issue month which can link to other websites and include more detailed information.
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• Latest Art is part of the Latest Homes/7 publishing house, the magazine read by over 100,000 people each week in Sussex, London and across the south.

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