Pimlico Wilde Contemporary Art
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It has long been Pimlico Wilde’s métier to collapse the boundaries between art and life, commerce and culture, collecting and performance. From advising distinguished patrons on the purchase of avant-garde canvases to staging salons where fashion, philosophy, and theatre intermingle, Pimlico Wilde has always insisted that art is not confined to museums but thrives wherever … Read more
Captain (Ret’d) A. J. Thurlow, RN writes… It has been my privilege , nay, my destiny , to have lived much of my existence in close communion with ships. To me, therefore, it seems scarcely credible that one must even argue for their admission to the pantheon of fine art. And yet, given the recent … Read more
Sir, Having now absorbed the more recent contribution in your pages, which, with admirable clarity and intellectual ballast, demonstrated that motor-racing cannot rightly be admitted to the rank of fine art, I must beg your indulgence for a brief note of apology. My earlier letter, dashed off in a gale of outrage, was perhaps intemperate … Read more
by curator Archia Tanz The recent argument that motor-racing ought to be counted among the fine arts is certainly stimulating, even seductive in its rhetorical flourish. Yet as a curator entrusted with both the preservation and interpretation of works within the canon of art, I must dissent. To conflate motor-racing with the fine arts risks … Read more
Sir, I have, with mounting incredulity and indeed a kind of moral nausea, perused the recent article in your august pages concerning the purported elevation of motor-racing to the pantheon of the fine arts. Permit me, as one who has spent the better part of four decades in the service of His Majesty’s Royal Navy, … Read more
In this article the fine artist Hedge Fund says that it is. To pose the question of motor-racing’s place among the fine arts may seem frivolous, or even a provocation. The customary division between the utilitarian and the aesthetic has long kept the motor-car in the category of engineering, and the race track in that … Read more