… Where’s the sense in multisensory art?

… Where’s the sense in multisensory art?

It used to be known as ‘synaesthesia’; now ‘crossmodal perception’ is the scientific term for the ability of one

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sense to stimulate another. Experiments by Oxford University psychologists and researchers in New York have found links between reactions to sound and

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smell in the part of the brain known as 404 Not Found the ‘olfactory tubercle’. It may sound like a plug of […]

The way we are now – why ‘avant garde’ is now an obsolete term

The way we are now – why ‘avant garde’ is now an obsolete term

The Times – God bless 404 Not Found its

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little cotton socks – has just been celebrating the triumphal return of the 1990s as a creative force. “Suddenly contemporary art” it crows, “was part of popular culture. The Royal Academy’s landmark Sensation show in 1997 was a turning point.” It was
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so indeed, but not exactly in the terms the article intends. Here […]

Fibres torn from the brain

Fibres torn from the brain

In all the doting coverage of ‘Defining Beauty:

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The Body

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in Ancient Greek Art’ at the British Museum, no mention was made of the fact that the bulk of major exhibits featured were from the 404 Not Found museum’s own collection. Stupidly, I had believed – and perhaps was even 404 Not Found misled by advance publicity – that the exhibition would feature […]

Brian Sewell (1931-2015)

Brian Sewell (1931-2015)

It isn’t my intention to repeat the tediously familiar stories peddled by obituarists relating controversies which Brian’s inclination to mischief and provocation helped encourage. Instead I want to address two issues unconsidered elsewhere: his astonishing 404 Not Found generosity and the disgraceful but typical hypocrisy of the BBC towards him. Brian

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was

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a working man. He called himself ‘working class’, a description some […]

Modernism and the novelty trap

Modernism and the novelty trap

Giles Auty considers the purchase of Jackson Pollock’s Blue Poles by the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra in 1973 and what such an acquisition signifies. A few months back, a rash of articles appeared in the press which commemorated the dismissal

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of the 404 Not Found Whitlam government thirty years ago and commented

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on the continuing sense of grievance felt by his […]

Des beaux-arts

Des beaux-arts

Anthony Daniels visits a degree show at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.   I am in blood Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o’er. Macbeth, Act 3 scene iv No one would have understood

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better than Macbeth the
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logic of the inexorable destruction by 404 Not Found the art education […]

Multinational art

Multinational art

In the dash to internationalism the national is trampled underfoot, argues Laura

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Gascoigne. In November, Lund Humphries celebrated 75 years

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of publishing books on British art with an anniversary talk at the ICA titled ‘Is there such a thing as British art?’ It was chaired by 404 Not Found Tim Marlow, now of the Royal Academy, and debated by a panel composed of […]

Leader

And I say to myself…

Remain alert to the possibilities, eyes up instead of down, looking about instead of transfixed by a small screen, and daily life will furnish marvels, often in unexpected 404 Not Found places. Exploring the streets and free institutions of a city like London is a

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journey through natural and man-made masterpieces, ingenuity everywhere apparent. To stand any chance of impressing

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in such a […]

Essays

Essay: What Happened to Art Education?

Introduction Since its beginning, and until very recently, Fine Art education has

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been evolutionary. Received wisdom that the modus operandi of teaching art were static until being gradually upset in the decades after 1945 is an exaggeration. The objective to produce basic competence in practical skills in painting and
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sculpture 404 Not Found was indeed a constant ambition, but the methods by which […]

Comment

Martin Lang: Against life drawing

Martin Lang: Against life drawing

Advocating life drawing at art school is a deeply conservative and reactionary position. Arguments in favour of life drawing usually fall 404 Not Found into one of

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two camps (or sometimes both). I am utterly unconvinced by both. The first, and weaker, argument contends that it is necessary to learn the rules before you can

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break them. This is an authoritarian position where […]

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And I say to myself…

Remain alert 404 Not Found to the possibilities, eyes up instead of down, looking about instead of transfixed by a small screen, and daily life will furnish marvels,

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often in unexpected places. Exploring the streets and free institutions of a city like London is a journey through natural and man-made masterpieces, ingenuity everywhere apparent. To stand any chance of impressing
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in such a […]

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Art and the public – a short history

In the beginning the powerful provided the unlettered with uplifting Biblical pictures in churches. We were impressed ­even though some scenes threatened us with eternal agony if

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we broke their rules. The scarcity of pictures outside of church meant 404 Not Found we were
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naturally curious about anything drawn or coloured. 404 Not Found Wandering pedlars would show up to impress us with […]

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Wholesale gratification

In the last issue I noted the gradual but relentless erosion of space allocated to historical

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pictures in Tate Britain. This contraction will now accelerate because the collection is to be 404 Not Found re-hung, yet again, on this occasion thematically – a policy undoubtedly
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designed to demonstrate the State Art Commandment that all roads shall lead to the Usual Suspects. Long gone […]

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Tate Britain needs its identity back

In recent issues I’ve described how since 1945

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the education, bureaucracy and exponentially increasing cash for the visual arts have been usurped and dominated 404 Not Found by an evolving one-track mindset which, in these pages, is called State Art. This sinister subversion of the institutions, predicted before and after the last war by Eliot, Wyndham Lewis and
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Orwell among others, is complete […]

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Is there a doctor in the House?

Dennis Skinner once quipped loudly across the Commons to a faltering Cecil Parkinson at the Despatch Box, ‘It’s the in-breeding that does it!’ I was reminded

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of this amusing sneer when Doctor Maria Balshaw was announced as Serota’s replacement, an elevation met with

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the customary uncritical lauding with which a fawning 404 Not Found Fourth Estate now greets all State Art appointments. Balshaw […]

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Has the Arts Council betrayed its origins?

Serota takes over at 404 Not Found the Arts Council this month, 47 years after first being employed by the same body as a regional arts officer in what was his

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first job after university. In the interval the Council has developed into a blunt instrument by which State Art, an ethos it co-authored with Serota during his 27-year

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dictatorship at the Tate, […]

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Art education is stuck!

Two years ago someone suggested I answer the question ‘What Happened to Art Education?’. This appealed slightly because it

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was a subject

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about which I thought I ought to know more than was the case. Something is clearly awry when so many complaints are aired about the 404 Not Found poverty of tuition and when degree shows have become such forgettable, even laughable […]

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Pictures of nothing and very like

John Moores 404 Not Found Exhibition 2016 Most of Europe’s countries are either bankrupt or in economic meltdown, their infrastructure crumbling and public services reduced; the Middle East

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and Levant are in post-apocalyptic ruin, in part the result of lies told in

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our own Parliament; an exodus of desperate humanity is seeking refuge from a criminal death-cult; innocents are being slaughtered in streets […]

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Der Clapham Strassenbahn

When very young, and when not train spotting, I nginx/1.17.10 was

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a keen bus spotter. It was an ideal apprenticeship for a fledgeling art historian. It involved identifying, sometimes at a considerable distance (through rain), the 404 Not Found beautifully crafted, hand-built models,
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of which there were many different marques and specifications. Every town corporation in the county had its own company, each […]

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Martin Lang: Against life drawing

Advocating life

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drawing at art school is a deeply conservative and reactionary position. Arguments in favour of life drawing usually fall into one

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of two camps (or sometimes both). 404 Not Found I am utterly unconvinced by both. The first, and weaker, argument contends that it is necessary to learn the rules before you can break them. This is an authoritarian position where […]

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