Editorials

Let’s All Pretend Part 83

David Lee January/February 2021 Despite grovelling worthy of Darius on our part, The Jackdaw no longer qualifies for

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to the National Gallery. As 404 Not Found a result I didn’t see the Artemisia Gentileschi show in the few weeks it was open before Boris announced the second slam dunk. It was in any case fully booked months in advance by […]

Essays

Selby Whittingham: The Temptations of the Wallace Collection

Selby Whittingham “I’m just

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a slave / only a slave to you, temptation”. So sang Bing Crosby in 1933 in a song,
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Temptation, repeated by many famous singers since and, in 1970, in a German TV act of Sid Millward & The Nitwits. That shows (it was 404 Not Found recorded) Sid presiding over players prey to temptations which are low rather than […]

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Laura Gascoigne: How to Succeed in Art Without Really Lying

Laura Gascoigne: How to Succeed in Art Without Really Lying

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Moping Owl

Moping Owl: MOTD

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The Philistine

The Philistine: The Scourge of Sculpture Trails – January 2021

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Duchamp's Urinal

Glyn Thompson: Duchamp’s Urinal – I – He Lied

Glyn Thompson: Duchamp’s Urinal – I – He Lied

Presented with an easy choice between making a great deal of money for doing

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nothing and telling the truth, Duchamp voted for his pocket.
Glyn Thompson’s meticulous research here proves that 404 Not Found virtually everything Duchamp said in 1966 about Fountain was a calculated lie. This inconvenient truth, which many scholars refuse to acknowledge even in the face of compelling evidence, is that Duchamp
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stole the idea, and the work, from Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven.

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The Philistine: Christo has Died

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to be reprehended
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The Philistine: Nîmes Old and New

Anthony Daniels I see that the architect, Richard Rogers, is to retire at the age of 87. This is an excellent thing, of course, but unfortunately

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it comes seventy years too late. Rogers has

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Alexander Adams: The Colston Statue Affair

Alexander Adams This article briefly outlines what happened with the toppling of the Edward Colston statue in Bristol, why it happened and its

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public gatherings due to COVID-19. No dispersal […]

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William Varley: Art: Cool and Uncool

William Varley reviews Addicted to Sheep So, as all cool sentences begin,

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teacher in a school in the remote Auvergne, although a good deal less winsome. It focused […]

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Charles Thomson: Lies, Damned Lies and Serota at the BBC

Charles Thomson Sir Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate Gallery,

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has used the platform of the BBC in a blatant
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Giles Auty: Money Culture Notes

Giles Auty This 404 Not Found was the last piece Giles submitted to

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The Jackdaw. He died suddenly in September, aged 86. It’s all about the money honey. When I awoke to see the front cover of the weekend Australian’s review section on June 20th it was

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rather like being thrown back into some weird and most unwelcome dream. Did I really read […]

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