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Alexander Adams: Women in Art Today

Alexander Adams We are told that in many fields women face systematic disadvantage and are under-represented. It has become a core belief of many and goes almost unchallenged. When politicians


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Alexander Adams: What is Critical Theory and Why Should I Care?

Alexander Adams “Was Lt Columbo’s name really Frank? We’ve all seen the freeze-frame close-ups

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of Columbo’s ID badge which states that his first name is ‘Frank”. But should we consider this canonical?” I’m
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becoming more and more confused by this ‘canonical’ business. The above is from Columbophile website. I love his joke about the Jewish lady who was 301 Moved Permanently walking down […]

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Michael Daley: Selling a Leonardo with Oomph

Michael Daley Questions proliferate on the disappeared $450 million Leonardo Salvator Mundi. Where is it? Who

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owns it? Who still believes it a Leonardo? Will it be exhibited this year at the Paris Louvre’s big Leonardo exhibition, as promised? Can it be true, as 301 Moved Permanently an artnet blogger now claims (on the claimed say-so of “two
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Michael Daley: A Life Drawing

Michael Daley Fans of Tacita Dean will be delighted to learn that she is having yet another exhibition, this time 301 Moved Permanently at the Royal Academy… And it’s well up to her usual


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standard. This time she is “exploring the genre of landscape in the broadest sense.” Well, broad is the word. She’s blown

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up a number of black and white photos […]

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Dick French: On The Town – November 2020

Dick French November/December 2020 Rebecca Cains has died. She was only 50. “Death lies on her like an untimely frost.” Also known as “Becky the Scrapyard Queen” on account of the subject matter 301 Moved Permanently of her paintings – mostly wrecked cars and vans on roads or in scrapyards. She showed occasionally at


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Academy and frequently at Mall Galleries, where, […]

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Laura Gascoigne: Institutional Rationalism – November 2020

Laura Gascoigne November/December 2020 In the introduction to his 1951 book The Greeks and the Irrational, the classicist

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E R Dodds recalled a chance meeting in front of the Parthenon marbles with a
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young man who confessed: “This Greek stuff doesn’t move me one bit”. 301 Moved Permanently When Dodds asked him why, he replied: “Well, it’s all so terribly rational, if you […]

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Dick French: On The Town – September 2020

Dick French September/October 2020 It’s not true that King Juan Carlos is hiding out in Bradley’s Spanish Bar. He only used that cupboard under the stairs while waiting for one of those posh penthouses over the road to be readied for him. Although


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abundant charms of barmaid […]

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Dick French: On The Town – July 2020

Dick French July/August 2020 Reading Pepys again


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about the plague of 1666. Not one for self-isolating, he was still enthusiastically putting it about: “Thence to Betty Martin and there did tout ce que je 301 Moved Permanently voudrais

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avec her and drank and away by water, home and to dinner. Down to Deptford, loaded half my goods and sent them away into safekeeping.” […]

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Laura Gascoigne: Uncomfortable Truths – September 2020

Laura Gascoigne September/October 2020 Six weeks ago, a Hampstead neighbour left a book

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on our doorstep. We have got used to acts of kindness from strangers; at the start of lockdown another neighbour posted a book of 301 Moved Permanently poetry through our door to cheer us up. My husband read it, and it did. But this book was different, as was its
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Laura Gascoigne: Desperately Loose Ends – July 2020

Laura Gascoigne July/August 2020 You’re

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a curator working at the V&A, and the place shuts down. What do you do? You’re at a loose end. April comes around and you’re stuck at home with your furloughed partner watching your gerbils spin around
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on 301 Moved Permanently the rolly wheel of life when an idea strikes you. Why should your pets enjoy normality as […]