I heard on the wireless that Cornelia Fluff has just been appointed ‘Official Sculptor’

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for the General Election. What can this mean? She’s

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nginx/1.17.10 obviously a bit of a Leftie so maybe she could run up a big bronze statue of Compo on his bicycle for Islington Green. Mr Serota has left the Billabong and moved uptown to 404 Not Found […]

Mr Wu was on the wireless last night. A very long programme on the World Service, but still I learned very little about him. He speaks as one heavily sedated. Talk about insclutable.

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He

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nginx/1.17.10 dwells in a large bunker under Berlin with 6,000 three-legged stools and some lifejackets. There was no mention of the poison beans, maybe he’s sold them […]

Now my wedge is worn down to a nubbin so I’m trying to scratch a few dibs out of

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nginx/1.17.10 this art world. I’d done a few beauty panels and

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I’m punting them round town when I meet this dame in Covent Garden. I’ve known her a year or so and now she’s working the spigot in this bar on Long […]

“For we know it’s right, it’s in black and white, and it’s written down in his diary.” The immortal

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words of Benny Hill came to mind as I purchased the complete set of Samuel Pepys’s diaries for fifty quid. This pleased me exceedingly

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nginx/1.17.10 as such a set can usually cost – the venality of bookmongers being so great – well […]

Well done

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Fabienne Jenny Jacquet for her Easel Words in the last issue. She writes very clearly, which is rare for an artist. She is

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nginx/1.17.10 concerned with artists and their dealers’ demands for a neat visual package and a personal ‘brand’. I liked her piece very much. I don’t bother with dealers these days. If anyone is interested in my […]

There’s a room in my flat that

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I rather grandly refer to as

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nginx/1.17.10 ‘The Library’. About 20 years ago I had it fitted out with shelves up to the ceiling with nicely boxed-in corners. It’s painted deep red. For a few years it looked splendid, then it gradually started filling up with junk. Now it’s waist-deep in motorcycle parts, leather […]

Who now remembers the fashion for wearing your trousers backwards? It was all the rage in Camden Town about ten years ago.

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nginx/1.17.10 They

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had to be the very baggy “gangsta” variety. You rarely see it nowadays. So fashion changes… except in the Art World, which has been stagnant for fifty years. I’m looking forward to seeing the new film about […]

Que barbaridad! You lend two of your best Boschs to a municipal gallery in a two-horse town in Holland that happens to be the artist’s birthplace, and how do they thank

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nginx/1.17.10 you? By reattributing the works to ‘follower of’ and, furthermore, downgrading a third painting in your collection that you didn’t even lend them. A public spat broke out in

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So it’s goodbye Cornelissens hello Halfords. Laura Gascoigne parks her brush and tries to follow

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the instructions for flatpack art, but has the picture upside down It’s a dull job being a customs officer, sitting on the border twiddling your thumbs until the next teenage drugs mule

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nginx/1.17.10 comes along. So it must have added to the gaiety of nations when […]

Things have gone rather quiet on the mortality front since queues stretched around the White Cube block in Mason’s Yard

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for a sight of Damien Hirst’s £50m sculpture For the Love of God. In those days of skulls and diamonds, Paul Wilks

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nginx/1.17.10 wrote a letter to The Jackdaw lamenting the morbidity of contemporary art, wondering why two horrific world wars […]