Laura Gascoigne Thank God for books. When shut off from real life, you can see it reflected in novels. But how accurate is the reflection? Does

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nginx/1.17.10 In month ten of the no-longer-new-abnormal I sat down with a stack of novels about artists. Some I’d read before, others were new, chief among them the fons et origo of […]

David Lee March/April 2021 Nothing much happened last

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year in the visual arts. The usual suspects promoted themselves with yards of trivia, usually about the NHS, but nothing serious was made except by those conventional sorts who go quietly about their business. National galleries tried to fill the gap by selling us ‘virtual’ and ‘digital’ ‘experiences’ by the dozen,

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Dick French A curious little book

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nginx/1.17.10 just come out called The Death of Francis Bacon. The author, Max Porter, won the International Dylan Thomas Prize some time ago. Whenever awards are deployed I always think of Charlotte Rampling who, in her film The Swimming Pool, remarked: “Awards are like haemorrhoids, sooner or later every arsehole gets one.” It’s not […]

HOME ALONE Well here we still are – or perhaps not by the time you read this: goodness me, let’s hope so

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nginx/1.17.10 I do rather worry about how you’re all bearing up in these strange and straitened times. Social distancing is one thing, but this Social Hibernation altogether something else: and, with no release in prospect, it does […]

Anthony Daniels Some years ago, I published an article in which I alleged

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that one of the most beautiful old towns in England had been devastated aesthetically by corrupt decisions of the council to permit modernist redevelopment. This created a certain stir in the town,

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

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National Gallery. As a result I didn’t see the Artemisia Gentileschi show in the few

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nginx/1.17.10 weeks it was open before Boris announced the second slam dunk. It was in any case fully booked months in advance by […]

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