Artful endeavours

Abstract

Exciting year to come With 2014 upon us, Sarah NH Vogeler looks at the art scene in the year that was and what to expect next IN The Shock Of The New, a 1980 documentary television series, its writer and presenter, Robert Hughes theorised that"... the basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its glory and its occasional nastiness, not through argument but through feeling, and then to close the gap between you and everything that is not you, and in this way pass from feeling to meaning.