by Jon Lackman | 7 March 2006 | Contemporary, Museums
Should Britain regulate the export of contemporary art? Peter Aspden writes that currently “works have to be at least 50 years old for Waverley [rules] to apply. Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, the Chapman brothers: their work sidles silently across the border, and there is nothing we can do about it. Good riddance, I hear many of you say. But given the extraordinary interest in contemporary art, the 50-year-rule is an absurd and outdated one. The millions of visitors to Tate Modern – a spectacular cultural success story – surely want to see the best that the gallery’s host country has to offer.”
