Galleries: let's ditch the artspeak and artybollocks
If public galleries really want to be more accessible, they should listen to George Orwell and never use a long word where a short one will doAs an art student eager to know about the latest arts discourse and reviews, I thought nothing of spending hours poring over the library’s copy of contemporary art journal Studio International. With dictionary to hand, I would assiduously look up the unfamiliar words and decipher all the specialist concepts and terms. I was there to study. I had time and
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