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self-help guide to the saatchi gallery www.newartnetwork.net/saatchi-gallery-london - The History of the Saatchi Gallery, an impressive new cloth-and-leather-bound volume similar to an authentic edition of Macaulay'sHistory of England, I used to be overcome with melancholy. Charles Saatchi's achievement derives from an imperial character - single-minded, visionary, decisive, bold but in addition capricious, hot-tempered, hubristic, with a short attention span and a certain vulnerability, that emerges in turns as shyness and defensiveness. Once, he was invincible, however that times have changed the empire appears too large and undefined. Even though the court poets still compose panegyrics at night walls of his palace, his power is fading. But it's not very late. saatchi art - Charles can help to save his empire, but he'll have to change his ways. So what next? Perhaps Saatchi's History may soon need one final chapter. His exhibitions didn't work to create a big impact, while the gallery, insiders say, is incredibly harmful for run. That may be why a year ago he surprised everyone, including his own staff, by announcing he would definitely give his museum for the nation. Numerous pieces of art will be donated at no cost, but discussions with the Arts Council and Secretary of state for Culture suggested the taxpayer could end up footing the bill for running the gallery. So, a year on, there isn't any Tate Saatchi as of yet. Jeremy Hunt remains saying no thanks, albeit inside the politest terms: "Ministers expressed their gratitude when Mr Saatchi made his very generous offer. We recognize that Mr Saatchi is currently considering how he really wants to move forward, and we are extremely pleased to facilitate any discussions," a spokesman told Bloomberg the other day. Cultural fads come and go, and Charles could be ahead of the curve for the first time inside a decade, with his diminishing fascination with the expensive sport of writing art history with a cheque book. saatchi art - However hope that's not the truth. Charles has rewritten cultural history three times already. None of Britain's other collectors have done that - or come with an ounce of his musketeer-like panache. He just has to hire a few curators and reinvent his acquisitions strategy. Remodel which will he could affect the art world again. A history with the Saatchi Gallery is published by Booth-Clibborn Editions,