David Lee was editor of
Art Review magazine, but left to found his own satirical, opinionated, often vitriolic, magazine
The Jackdaw to continue his campaign at what he sees as unacceptable standards in the art world.
The Jackdaw was founded in 2000, and is published six times a year. Lee took with him from
Art Review a section titled "Artbollocks", where Lee reprints what he considers to be nonsensical and pretentious use of language by critics, galleries and artists, when describing art. He has been linked with the
Stuckists art movement because of their similar response to the
Young British Artists, the Turner Prize and conceptual art. However, he is equally opposed to their art and, when the Stuckists offered a donation of work to the
Tate Gallery, he declared: "If the Tate accepts these ridiculous daubs
The Jackdaw will dance naked – except for his favourite swastika armband – down Whitehall singing Mamma Mia." He called the
Charles Saatchi's
New Blood exhibition in 2004, "an assortment of tricks and stunts that was promoted with desperation and hitherto unsuspected tastelessness ... He promoted a rotten, talentless painter called
Stella Vine to public notoriety". Lee acted as "an independent art critic" for a task in the British 'Big Brother' TV show, broadcast 2 July 2009, where he judged three pieces, two of which were done by housemates and the third by a six-year-old child. Though Lee was told all three were by housemates, he still judged the six-year-old's the worst. Lee has been one of the three judges on the
BBC2 art series,
Show Me the Monet. ==Notes and references==