Beefy
While writing in praise of Bovril—a meat extract concentrate—and the role of London's Piccadilly Circus in its promotion down the years, Bethan Bell makes a brief diversion into other uses for the landmark's enormous illuminated screen.
These include national celebrations, as well as sombre occasions. She illustrates the point with an image of the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Although it's unclear as to which of the two extremes it's meant to represent.
In another example, that old artfag David Hockney scrawled some words on an iPad, and it was art. Apparently.
People gathered to view a new artwork from British artist David Hockney entitled "Remember [sic] you cannot look at the sun or death for very long" which was created on the artist's iPad in Normandy.
Bethan Bell, BBC News
Unlike her colleague, Natalie Sherman, Bell couldn't copy/paste Hockney's art text. Instead, she had to transcribe it old skool, so can be forgiven somewhat for erring. After all, we're all only human, and there's only so much time a girl can devote to this shit, even if it's arty shit. Mind you, I'm not an artfag, so perhaps it's easy for me to be ambivalent about what some might see as her work of cultural barbarianism.
Actually, she—or the editorial staff—got it wrong twice, once in the body text and again in the caption. But at least she's consistent…and that's a testament to the power of copy/paste.
Just don't let the old hack see what she's done to his meisterwerk though.
In Bell's defence, there seems to be some confusion out there [points at internet] about the wording in Hockney's 2021 work. The old artfag himself appears to be somewhat ambivalent. And if even he can't be arsed, why on earth should she?
Nevertheless, I'm going to stick with her needing to have reported what was actually shown at Piccadilly Circus, in place of an ad for a tasty, warming meat extract drink.