Texas artist James Magee has been something of a recluse in El Pas. Fewer than a hundred people have probably seen The Hill, his magnum opus, a complex of buildings and sculptures on some 2,000 acres out in the West Texas desert. The Hill is a career summation that bears comparison with Donald Judd's famous Marfa or Walter de Maria's The Lightning Field in New Mexico....

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"Nicholas Serota, director of all the Tate museums (a network that includes Tate Britain across the river in Milbank along with branches in Liverpool and St. Ives) and the mastermind behind the Tate Modern, insists that despite the rocky economy and the recent announcement of government cutbacks for arts financing, the Tate Modern must grow."...

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"Art may be particularly attractive now because of the uncertainties of the stock markets, big currency fluctuations and the looming spectre of inflation in some major countries, and deflation in others."...

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Just made public are charges "that no fewer than 15 works produced over the years by the self-styled enfant terrible have been allegedly 'inspired' by others."...

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