course." Art critic Adrian Searle wrote it was a fantastic work that played with preconceptions. Artist and tutor John Stezaker and curator Ralph Rugoff both said the project was interesting art. Germaine Greer wrote Going Places was a masterpiece of "... the only art that millennial culture recognises ... marketing." Publicist Max Clifford complimented the group's public relations skills. However, art academics at other institutions said Going Places was not interesting beyond showing the mutual reliance of art and the media, and accused the group of further damaging the reputation of artists. More accusations were to follow. Leeds 13 repaid the grant, but Leeds University Union decided the group's deceptions had damaged the reputations of students and the union itself. They demanded an apology for publication in Leeds Student. The group refused so its members were banned from their students's union for life. In contrast, a University of Leeds spokesman had earlier declined to condemn the group when it appeared they had both spent the donations and been on holiday. In mid-July, the members of Leeds 13 were all awarded first class for their third year, and according to a BBC News report "Examiners praised them for challenging popular perceptions about how art is produced, taught and criticised." Ongoing response In September 1998, Leeds 13 were the latest example in an article on artists using the media by curator Ralph Rugoff published in Frieze magazine. Rugoff wrote that Going Places was a "... perfectly executed double whammy." that had provoked public debate on the nature of art although he doubted the results would be enlightening. More interesting to Rugoff was the way Leeds 13, and contemporaries Decima Gallery, had gone further than their predecessors by making the media their principal artistic medium, and how in distributing their work the media had added new facets to it. He labelled both groups Neo-Publicists. Going Places and its media frenzy were included in The Times Higher Education Supplement news highlights of 1998. In 2009, RTÉ Radio 1 aired Grand Art featuring a Leeds 13 member and revisiting Going Places as one of two performance artworks from the late-1990s that cost around £1,000. The 2013 Reith Lecture Beating the Bounds, given by artist Grayson Perry on BBC Radio 4, examined the idea that anything can be art. Using Going Places as an example, Perry hoped the project was a parody of that idea. In