Editing Young British Artists (section)

===Negative===
In 1998, John Windsor in ''[[The Independent]]'' said that the work of the YBAs seemed tame compared with that of the "[[shock art]]" of the 1970s, including "kinky outrages" at the [[Nicholas Treadwell]] Gallery, amongst which were a "hanging, anatomically detailed leather straitjacket, complete with genitals", titled ''Pink Crucifixion'', by Mandy Havers.<ref name=windsor>Windsor, John. [https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/art-98-collecting--let-the-love-affair-begin-1139220.html "Art 98: Collecting—Let the love affair begin"], ''[[The Independent]]'', 17 January 1998. Retrieved 14 August 2010.</ref>

In 1999 the [[Stuckism|Stuckists]] art group was founded with an overt anti-YBA agenda.<ref>Blanché, Ulrich (2018). Damien Hirst. Gallery Art in a Material World. Baden-Baden, Tectum Verlag, p. 193f.</ref> In 2002 Britart was heavily criticised by the leading conductor Sir [[Simon Rattle]], who was, in return, accused of having a poor understanding of [[Conceptual art|conceptual]] and [[Visual arts and design|visual]] art.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Connolly |first1=Kate |last2=Hill |first2=Amelia |date=2002-08-25 |title=Rattles fires parting shot at Brit Art bratpack |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/aug/25/arts.artsnews |access-date=2025-01-16 |work=The Observer |language=en-GB |issn=0029-7712}}</ref>

Playwright [[Tom Stoppard]] made a public denunciation, and [[Brian Sewell]] (art critic of the ''Evening Standard'') was consistently hostile,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Jones |first=Jonathan |date=2024-09-26 |title=London Standard's AI imitation of Brian Sewell proves art critics cannot be easily replaced |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/sep/26/london-standards-ai-imitation-of-brian-sewell-proves-art-critics-cannot-be-easily-replaced |access-date=2024-10-17 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> as was [[David Lee (art critic)|David Lee]], the editor of ''Jackdaw''.
[[Rolf Harris]], the television presenter and artist, singled out Tracey Emin's ''My Bed'' as the kind of installation that put people off art. "I don't see how getting out of bed and leaving the bed unmade and putting it on show and saying that's worth, I don't know £31,000 ... I don't believe it, I think it's a con."

For [[James Heartfield]], "The 1990s art boom encouraged sloppiness. The Young British Artists preferred the inspired gesture to patient work. They added public outrage to their palettes, only to find that it faded very quickly."<ref>[http://www.heartfield.org/Creativity_Gap.pdf James Heartfield: the creativity Gap. 2005. p. 23]</ref>

Members of the group are parodied in a regular cartoon strip by Birch, titled "Young British Artists", in the British satirical magazine ''[[Private Eye]]''.{{Cn|date=April 2025}} The scene is  also parodied in [[Jilly Cooper]]'s 2002 bonkbuster ''[[Pandora (2002 novel)|Pandora]]''.<ref name=":02">{{Cite news |last=MacFarlane |first=Robert |date=2002-05-05 |title=Laughing all the way to the bonk |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/may/05/fiction.features2 |access-date=2025-04-15 |work=The Observer |language=en-GB |issn=0029-7712}}</ref>