About UsArtnose is the UK's first and only satirical arts website. Founded by art journalist Percy Flarge in 2002, it offers authoritative news of events in the fast-moving global art market, in cultural heritage, museums, and the creative industries and the tenuous links between them. An archive of past Artnose stories can be found at http://www.artnose.org/archive.htm Artnose is always interested in collaborative projects as long as they don't require unconscionable amounts of venture capital or interaction with hedge fund managers, art investment advisers, or 'freelance curators'. |
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In 2003, Artnose published new research by the renowned Oxford archaeologist Dr Rex Tooms which established that the so-called Elgin Marbles had not, in fact, been made by the Greek sculptor Pheidias in the mid-fifth century BC, but were actually created by an Englishman called Phil Davies, the son of an iron-age donkey breeder from Abbotsbury on the Dorset coast. The Belgian broadsheet De Morgen picked up on the story (below right) and helpfully published a full-page article on our research. The Guardian in London then mercilessly poured scorn on the poor Belgians, accusing them of losing their Marbles (full story here). The revelation of the Marbles' true authorship brought clamorous calls for the repatriation to England of the entire Parthenon on the grounds that the temple and its sculptures were thus essentially English and not Greek. Since then, in deference to Greece's lamentable economic plight, Artnose has been spearheading a campaign to leave the Parthenon in Athens and instead to have the Parthenon Marbles currently housed in the British Museum returned to the New Acropolis Museum in Athens in order to bolster its tourist revenues. For more on that, visit Elginism.com and the British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles (BCRPM). Percy Flarge More Artnose press Kunstmarkt auf die Pappnase: Review by German broadsheet Die Zeit of the original Artnose website (2005) |
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