My friend Nick James, who has died aged 75, set up a spoof art gallery in London in the early 1970s that invited the art world to take a good look at itself.
He opened up his space, called simply The Gallery, in 1973 as a critique of the commercial art gallery system as it related to conceptual art, which had become all the rage a few years earlier. The Gallery’s first show consisted of some crude potato prints, followed by several exhibitions featuring the invented work of madeup conceptual artists.
