Happens to the best of us

I've had quite a lot on happening recently, and as such postings have been very few and far between. Notwithstanding apologies, I'd like to focus briefly on poor Anthony Gormley's latest piece, unveiled last week at the Hayward Gallery in London. The cube of fog is an extremely interesting sculptural proposition, although not as interesting as a very similar piece by Ann Veronica Janssens, which was unveiled a decade ago in 1997.

I'm not suggesting that anything naughty or plagiaristic has gone on here, more that the field of cultural production is so huge now, being populated by so many practitioners in widely differing cultural settings, that even the really big names end up producing work that is less unique than it first appears. That said, if I was a lawyer acting for Ms Janssens, I'd be keen to know what he was doing in June 1997 when Janssens' piece was shown at the Venice Biennale.