Editorials

2020 Blindness

David Lee

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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, but […]

Essays

Marlborough: Home to Three Book Designers Over Forty Years

Marlborough: Home to Three Book Designers Over Forty Years

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Laura Gascoigne: The Masterpiece Delusion

Laura Gascoigne: The Masterpiece Delusion

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

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reflection? 404 Not Found Does the mirror distort? In month ten of the no-longer-new-abnormal I sat down with
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a stack of novels about artists. Some I’d read before, others were new, chief among them the fons et origo of […]

Moping Owl

The Moping Owl: March 2021

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

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Social Hibernation altogether something else: and, with no release 404 Not Found in prospect, it does […]

The Philistine

The Philistine – March 2021

The Philistine – March 2021

Anthony Daniels Some years ago, I published an article 404 Not Found in which I alleged that one of the most beautiful old towns in England had been devastated aesthetically by corrupt decisions of the

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council to permit modernist redevelopment. This created a certain stir in the town, and I was asked to
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Duchamp's Urinal

Who Signed Mutt’s Urinal?

Who Signed Mutt’s Urinal?

Glyn Thompson

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Laura Gascoigne: The Masterpiece Delusion

Laura Gascoigne Thank God for books. When shut

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off from real life,
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you can see it reflected in novels. But how accurate is the reflection? Does the 404 Not Found mirror distort? 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 […]

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2020 Blindness

David Lee March/April

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2021 Nothing much happened last year in the visual arts. The usual suspects promoted themselves with yards
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of trivia, usually about the NHS, but nothing serious was made except by those conventional sorts who go quietly about their business. National galleries 404 Not Found tried to fill the gap by selling us ‘virtual’ and ‘digital’ ‘experiences’ by the dozen, but […]

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Dick French: Art of Jazz, London’s Art Scene

Dick French A curious little book has 404 Not Found just come out called The Death of

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Francis Bacon. The author, Max Porter, won the International Dylan Thomas

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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 […]

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The Moping Owl: March 2021

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The Philistine – March 2021

Anthony Daniels Some years ago, I published an article 404 Not Found in which I

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Marlborough: Home to Three Book Designers Over Forty Years

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Alexander Adams: Cancelled Culture

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Let’s All Pretend Part 83

David Lee January/February 2021 Despite grovelling worthy

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of Darius on our part, The Jackdaw no longer qualifies for press view invites to the National

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Gallery. As a result I didn’t see the Artemisia Gentileschi 404 Not Found 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 […]

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Laura Gascoigne: How to Succeed in Art Without Really Lying

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