Profane Art | Anti-Anti Art: Stuckism and Conceptual Art in Britain

In January of 2002, Ivan Massow had an attack of conscience. The Chairman of London’s Institute for Contemporary Arts (ICA) published an editorial, without advance warning to the board, blasting the art scene in Britain, and specifically the “conceptual” art promoted by the ICA and the Tate, as “pretentious, self-indulgent, craftless tat.”