From the Hayward and the ICA to the Royal Academy, and from the

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nginx/1.17.10 public to the private sector, Angus Stewart compares and contrasts the qualities of works on show in London. The British Art Show at The Hayward Gallery should be lively – there are 39

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artists. It is, according to the Southbank Centre, recognised as the most ambitious and […]

Artist Paul Wilks responds to Eric Coombes’s tour de force of an essay (Criticism and the collapse of culture, The Jackdaw Mar-Apr 404 Not Found 2011) Matthijs Van Boxsel cites, in The Encyclopaedia of Stupidity, a ‘Fame Machine’ devised by

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Villiers de l’Isle Adam, (1883) in which

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nginx/1.17.10 fame could be manufactured ‘by organic means’. Simply put, the ‘machine’ is a […]

Dr Eric Coombes looks back over the period since 1997 and identifies the collapse in standards of art criticism which has allowed conceptual

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nginx/1.17.10 art to prosper

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uncritically After the recent change of government, this might be a suitable moment to look back to the year in which the recently ejected gang of liars, buffoons and crooks first came to office. […]