The Self-Importance of Being Earnest
Is One & Other bad art, then? Well, there’s another way of seeing it. Could Antony Gormley be a much darker, more disturbing artist than we think? Warhol was not celebrating modern life when he said everyone would be famous for 15 minutes: he was delivering a cynical prophesy of a diffuse, shiftless world. For me, this is a monument to that prophesy’s fulfillment.
Jonathan Jones, Guardian Art Critic, on Antony Gormley’s Fourth Plinth installation “One & Other
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