Still, the city maintains a vibrant
mainstream artistic culture with numerous museums, galleries and even a Bach Festival every year.
Not exact matches
They were obviously being tongue - in - cheek, yet their words also offered a shrewd insight: Not only had the media image of the artist's lifestyle become part and parcel of
artistic practice but, after Warhol, art now offered a path to a kind of
mainstream success typically reserved for other quarters of
culture.
While signaling the importance of Carnival as a performance medium with mass appeal in the culminating era of the massification of museum
culture, Up Hill Down Hall inscribes these works within the politically conscious cultural legacy of the Notting Hill Carnival, born of Caribbean migration and metropolitan accommodation to the aftermath of colonialism, resistance to racism and the
mainstreaming of multiculturalism and, ultimately, developed through cultural ingenuity and
artistic creativity at the forefront of the formation of postcolonial British
culture.
Based on the hypothesis that the
culture of self - improvement that permeates all spheres of society today is also a result of the
artistic dissemination of therapeutic ideas into the
mainstream, the exhibition presents contemporary
artistic reflections on the phenomenon of our modern meritocracy.