“Michael was, I think, always one of the most interesting artists of the Y.B.A. grouping,” said Stallabrass, referring to the generation of Young British Artists that energized the contemporary art scene in the 1990s and early 2000s. At the end of the process, witnessed by about 50,000 visitors, he was left with six tons of bagged-up waste. It was buried in a landfill site in Essex, where much of London’s garbage is dumped. 1 ideology of our time,” Landy, 58, said on a recent tour of the anniversary exhibition.

Source: International New York Times July 12, 2021 11:26 UTC