Editing Stuckism (section)

==Responses and critique==
A short time after the 1999 exhibition of ''[[My Bed]]'' and the Stuckists' response with ''[[Sir Nicholas Serota Makes an Acquisitions Decision]]'', a pair of [[performance art]]ists named [[Yuan Cai and Jian Jun Xi]] performed an [[art intervention]] titled ''Two Naked Men Jump into Tracey's Bed'' at the Tate Gallery's Turner Prize. Cai had written, among other things, the words "Anti Stuckism" on his bare back as the two jumped on the bed and performed a pillow fight. Fiachra Gibbons of ''The Guardian'' wrote (in 1999) that the event "will go down in art history as the defining moment of the new and previously unheard of Anti-Stuckist Movement."<ref name=satirists>Gibbons, Fiachra (1999)[https://www.theguardian.com/turner1999/Story/0,12119,201733,00.html "Satirists Jump into Tracey's Bed"]''[[The Guardian]]'' online, 25 October 1999. Retrieved 22 March 2006.</ref> Writing in ''The Guardian'' ten years later, Jonathan Jones described the Stuckists as "enemies of art", and what they say as "cheap slogans" and "hysterical rants".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Jones |first1=Jonathan |title=The Stuckists are enemies of art |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2009/oct/01/art-stuckist-manifesto |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=16 March 2015|date=2 October 2009}}</ref>

The artist Max Podstolski wrote that the art world needed a new manifesto, as confrontational as that of [[Futurism]] or [[Dadaism]], "written with a heart-felt passion capable of inspiring and rallying art world outsiders, dissenters, rebels, the neglected and disaffected", and suggests that "Well now we've got it, in the form of Stuckism".<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Podstolski |first1=Max |title=Head vs. Heart: a Critique of the Stuckist Manifesto |url=http://www.spark-online.com/issue32/podstolski.html |journal=Spark-online |access-date=16 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130328082935/http://www.spark-online.com/issue32/podstolski.html |archive-date=28 March 2013 |date=May 2002 |volume=32 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

New York art gallery owner Edward Winkleman wrote in 2006 that he had never heard of the Stuckists, so he "looked them up on Wikipedia", and stated he was "turned off by their anti-conceptual stance, not to mention the inanity of their statement about painting, but I'm more than a bit interested in the democratization their movement represents." Thomson responded to Winkleman directly.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Winkleman |first1=Edward |title=The Stuckists |url=http://www.edwardwinkleman.com/2006/08/stuckists.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121124072909/http://www.edwardwinkleman.com/2006/08/stuckists.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=24 November 2012 |access-date=16 March 2015 |date=28 August 2006 }}</ref><!--Winkleman is notable in this context, read above for why-->

Also in 2006, Colin Gleadell, writing in ''[[Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]'', noted that the Stuckists' first exhibition in central London had brought "multiple sales" for leading artists of the movement, and that this raised the question of how good they were at painting. He observed that "Whatever the critics may say, buyers from the UK, the US and Japan have already taken a punt. Six of Thomson's paintings have sold for between £4,000 and £5,000 each. Joe Machine, a former [[prisoner]] who paints for therapeutic reasons, has also sold six paintings for the same price."<ref>{{cite news|last1=Gleadell|first1=Colin|title=Market news: Roger Hilton's child-like drawings, 'stuckist' paintings and Edward Seago|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/3655699/Market-news-Roger-Hiltons-child-like-drawings-stuckist-paintings-and-Edward-Seago.html|newspaper=The Telegraph|access-date=17 March 2015|date=3 October 2006}}</ref>

[[Paul Vallely]] defended Sir Nicholas Serota from Stuckist campaigns, criticizing the movement's anti-conceptualism for its association with "forces of social reaction" such as the ''[[Daily Mail]]'' and upholding Serota as the "greatest single champion of modern art in Britain".<ref name=TakeThat>Vallely, Paul. "Tate that: Serota defies his critics", ''[[The Independent]]'', 16 August 2008. Retrieved 21 February 2024</ref> Vallely stated that while "I did smile" at ''Acquisitions Decision'', he equally admired Serota's "cool response to the Stuckist détournement", visiting the Punk Victorian show and conversing with members before rejecting an offered donation of their work as not of "sufficient quality in terms of accomplishment, innovation or originality of thought to warrant preservation in perpetuity in the national collection".<ref name=TakeThat />

The BBC arts correspondent Lawrence Pollard wrote in 2009 that the way was paved for "cultural agitators" like the Stuckists, as well as the [[Vorticism|Vorticists]], [[Surrealism|Surrealists]] and others, by the ''[[Futurist Manifesto]]'' of 20 February 1909.<ref>{{cite web |title=Back to the Futurists |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7894877.stm |publisher=BBC |access-date=17 March 2015 |date=20 February 2009}}</ref>