David Lee The following essay

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was included in: What is Wrong with Us? Essays in Cultural PathologyEdited by Eric Coombes and Theodore DalrympleImprint Academic2016, 300pp., pb., £12.95 Arnold Goodman, Chairman of the Arts Council from 1965 to 1972, observed: ‘It is not the job

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Visiting Chichester for the first time in my life recently, I was much struck by the modern building at Chichester Cross, admittedly not nearly as bad as

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the unbelievably terrible Festival Theatre but nevertheless more than sufficient to spoil the townscape. Any jobbing

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Well, a Museum of

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course needs things to show, and any self-respecting Storehouse, whether afloat or on dry land, likewise needs things to store: so you will be pleased to know that several significant acquisitions have already been – how shall I put it gently? – acquired: item: a large portrait by Kalinde Wiley, an American, from her Yellow

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I don’t know what it is. Perhaps it’s just me getting on

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things are coming off the bat a shade too fast for comfort, and going through for four every time. Indeed there are moments when I’m not altogether sure what’s going on at […]

Laura Gascoigne In April Lionel Messi put a signed pair of his adidas football boots up for auction at Christie’s. Customised with the names

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Barcelona striker scored his 644th goal for his nginx club, beating Pele’s previous record of 643 for Santos. Perfumed with the player’s DNA, […]

David Lee Sept/Oct 2021 I took a wrong turn

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on my bike recently near Russell Square and came upon Wallis Gilbert’s 1931 Daimler car hire garage in Herbrand Street. Set back almost hidden, and only yards from where I attended university, I had never suspected its existence. It now pleases me so much I

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David Lee July/August

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anyway. She is exhibiting her recent efforts among the 17th century Spanish pictures to which, it is claimed, her own […]

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Hope springs eternal, so the poet sings, or dum spiro spero, as that wise and prudent old bird, King Charles I, would put

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it, and he should know. But then again, true as truth may be, I have to say there are times, and these not the least of them, when it would seem to have shrunk to

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