Pretentiousness: Why It Matters Paul Watkins and our background

and our background

their differences reveal that far more is at stake here than just the age of the earth

Not just her fiery red hair and bright green eyes

They have three daughters

and Hera (Germany)

Pretentiousness: Why It Matters Paul Watkins and our backgroundPretentiousness is for anyone who has braved being different, whether that's making a stand against artistic consensus or running the gauntlet of the last bus home dressed differently from everyone else. It's an essential ingredient in pop music and high art. Why do we choose accusations of elitism over open mindedness? What do our anxieties about pretending say about us? Co editor of frieze, Europe's foremost magazine of contemporary art and culture,