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day. The museum is organised in three major sections: a cabinet of curiosities dating from the 18th century, which was added to and enriched over time with the goal of creating a museum-world; a collection of old masters (Veronese, Rubens, Chardin, Gustave Caillebotte and Odilon Redon), with a particular emphasis on 17th century French painting (Georges de La Tour, Charles Le Brun, Noël Coypel and Philippe de Champaigne); and a collection of modern and contemporary art amassed in the mid-20th Which historical era should people pay more attention to? The one that’s just passed; the previous five years.

What did you take away from studying Art History at the Courtauld Institute? How to look at things. Change the plan you will roll onto at any time during your trial by visiting the “Settings & Account” section. What happens at the end of my trial? Interview with Jeremy Deller and Sophie Kaplan, La Criée Centre of Contemporary Art, Saturday June 10, I enjoy those little moments, like calling a chapter ‘Queen Victoria with Her Face Smashed In’. Very late in the day, in the last two or three weeks, I basically just turned the book around. It was quite traditional and I had to interfere with it, putting in crazy chapter headings, changing the typefaces and adding in more irreverent captions to replace the ones that were very dry. In the main body text I’m trying to be quite straightforward, and then the captions are written in a more irreverent, slightly insider-y tone, almost to undermine what you are looking at. If I’d had another month, I would have interfered with it even more, but it’s probably good I stopped when I did. century (Picasso, Gris, Tanguy, Laloy, Soulages, Hains, Asse, Morellet, Nemours and Molnár). The museum’s temporary exhibitions are designed to showcase these three key collections that provide the opportunity to compare and contrast the art of antiquity, contemporary art and collectibles from differentDeller during the filming of his 2001 re-enactment of The Battle of Orgreave. Photograph: Steve Forrest/Troika It’s quite aprovocative thing to do, showing ablown-up car from [what was] effectively acivil war that Americans were involved in. It was really ajourney into the unknown, which is stressful, but exciting. It was aconstant sort of psychological state, weighing up situations with people and just trying to treat everyone the same. installation and video art. He states that he prefers “working with people rather than things”. Instead of

While Stonehenge is the most recognisable structure in the UK, it remains an enduring mystery. For our national identity to be a bit of mystery is no bad thing, as it gives the public space to make up their own versions of who they are. The idea of multiple interpretations of a place and history goes against the instincts of nationalism and authoritarianism, where countries have their sacred founding myths that cannot be interfered with. A country or institution that can’t laugh at itself is in trouble. Sacrilege was my attempt to help with this situation Jeremy Deller: It doesn’t cover everything I’ve done and is quite a subjective take on things. In a sense it’s meant to be both an introduction and an overview, but a very personal one because I’ve written everything in it—apart from the interviews, obviously. It’s an explanation of sorts and also it’s about motivation: why I wanted to do things, and how I did things. So it’s maybe lifting the lid a little bit on the process, as well. Art is Magic is an attempt to connect the key pieces in Deller’s œuvre with the art, pop music, film, politics and history that have inspired him. Much ink has been spilled about Deller over the decades, but this is the first time he has brought “Art is Magic, le meilleur livre de Jeremy Deller” His best-known work, The Battle of Orgreave, is both. It entailed two years of deep research and a cast of 1,000 former miners and historical war ‘reenactors’, whom he assembled in a windy field near Sheffield in 2001 to reenact the infamous confrontation between police and striking miners that took place near the Orgreave coking plant in 1984. In the book, he calls it “my Stairway to Heaven” and suggests that it may be “the one work that may outlive me”.Revealingly, he describes Art Is Magic as “a book about an artist rather than an artist’s book”. To this end, it is designed, he says, “to look a bit like one of those annuals you’d get for Christmas when you were a kid”. It is subtitled “a children’s book for adults”, which somewhat underplays the provocative political undertow of some of the projects described within, whether it is his epic reenactment of the “Battle of Orgreave” during the miners’ strike or his 2019 film Putin’s Happy, which captures the febrile atmosphere of the Brexit protests in Parliament Square. “The book is written in my own words,” he explains, “and the tone I was aiming for is someone sitting in a pub chatting to you about what they’ve been up to. I hope the book demystifies things, explains my motivations, and sheds some light on what I do.” What’s your least favourite thing about making art in 2023? Not having enough ideas, you always want to have more ideas. And not having the time. Actually, the distractions of the phone – that’s the worst thing. Does he worry about the current state of the world, the rising populism, the media propaganda, the acute sense of imperilled democracy? “Yeah, the world worries me constantly, but, for an artist, that is almost a good thing. It gives you something to constantly push against. If the world was perfect, what would I be doing – just making nice paintings all the time?” Another came up to Deller in tears at the opening, saying that he’d deprived real artists of having a show. There were suggestions that the exhibition was somehow cynical or exploitative, but for Deller, it represented a material culture he had grown up with through local church fetes. “Artists have always taken from folk and vernacular culture and made something else – they’re just interested in the visual world, aren’t they?”