I was asked to take part in a conversation with Will Alsop held at Phillips as part of Frieze Week, organised by Surface magazine, and chaired by Sarah Thornton, the author of Seven Days in the Art World and 33 Artists in 3 Acts (very good on Ai Weiwei).   Two things will stick in my mind.   The first is the way that Alsop uses painting rather than drawing as a way of conceptualising a building project, often collaboratively.   The second is why it is that Alsop has never been asked to design a museum in spite of his prominence as an architect and the fact that he has a genuine and deep interest in the practice of art.   I remembered that he had been on the shortlist for Tate Modern.   Nobody mentioned The Public in West Bromwich.