media/video/All for a golden cause — theartnewspaper.com

Goldsmiths alumni including Damien Hirst, Steve McQueen, Sarah Lucas and Fiona Rae are donating works for auction at Christie’s London on 12 February. Their cause? A new public gallery that is due to open on the university campus next year at a cost of £2.8m. In this video, Michael Craig-Martin, an artist and a professor of art at Goldsmiths who has also donated work for the auction, talks about teaching in the 1970s, what the YBAs mean to him and what constitutes the essence of art.

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