Alexander McQueens retrospective

Lee McQueens retrospective at New Yorks Metropolitan Museum, Savage Beauty, has finished. In three months 661,409 visitors came to see the work on show. This puts it on a par with the Mona Lisa and Tutankhamun. He seldom reconciled his creativity with buisness though made more by chance than most make by intent, though to mention money seems trivia his popularity in death far outweighs his cultural perception since he took his own life a year ago a week after his mothers death. The son of a taxi driver, working class, gay, he was always an outsider. His work matched that of any fine artist of his time and questions of categorisation, fashion/ design/ art seem journalistic crap. His work took me places no others has; he could make me cry, few visual artists can, some music. There will never be another and anything I write trivialises looking at his work. That is the measure of a great artist, to say what words can not; most art today is reliant on the word.