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Alexander Adams: Why are artists poor?

Imagine the most absurd and outrageous

provocations about art that you can. For example: there

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such thing as a pure
work of art; artists are unusually ill-informed; there is no market reward

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for good art; government subsidies make artists 404 Not Found poor. Both defensive supporters of state </h2> funding and <head> critical traditionalists will be muttering that art <!DOCTYPE html> should <h1 style="margin:0; font-size:150px; line-height:150px; font-weight:bold;">404</h1> not be viewed […]</p> </div><!-- /.entry --> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </div><!-- #post-1748 --> <div class="clear"></div> <div id="post-1746" class="post"> <div class="post-content"> <span class="meta"> in <a href="http://www.thejackdaw.co.uk/?cat=3" rel="category">Comment</a> </span> <h2 class="title"><a href="http://www.thejackdaw.co.uk/?p=1746" title="Permalink to Dick French: On The Town – November 2017" rel="bookmark">Dick French: On The Town – November 2017</a></h2> <div class="entry"> <p>It used to be said that a night

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John Bellany would take
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Dick French: On The Town – July 2017

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
obviously a bit of a Leftie so maybe she

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could run up a big bronze statue of Compo
on his bicycle for
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Islington 404 Not Found Green. Mr Serota has left the <head> Billabong <h2 style="margin-top:20px;font-size: 30px;">Not Found and moved </h2> uptown to a new job <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no" /> […]</p> </div><!-- /.entry --> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </div><!-- #post-1738 --> <div class="clear"></div> <div id="post-1736" class="post"> <div class="post-content"> <span class="meta"> in <a href="http://www.thejackdaw.co.uk/?cat=3" rel="category">Comment</a> </span> <h2 class="title"><a href="http://www.thejackdaw.co.uk/?p=1736" title="Permalink to Dick French: On The Town – May 2017" rel="bookmark">Dick French: On The Town – May 2017</a></h2> <div class="entry"> <p>Mr Wu was on the wireless last night. A <h2 style="margin-top:20px;font-size: 30px;">Not Found very <h1 style="margin:0; font-size:150px; line-height:150px; font-weight:bold;">404</h1> long programme on the World <br>Proudly powered by LiteSpeed Web Server<p>Please be advised that LiteSpeed Technologies Inc. is not a web hosting company and, as such, has no control over content found on this site.</p></div></body></html> Service, but still I learned <head> very little about him. He speaks as <html style="height:100%"> one <p>The resource requested could not be found on this server!</p> heavily sedated. Talk about insclutable.
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a large bunker under Berlin with 6,000 three-legged stools and some lifejackets. There was no mention of 404 Not Found the poison beans, maybe he’s </h2> sold them […]</p> </div><!-- /.entry --> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </div><!-- #post-1736 --> <div class="clear"></div> <div id="post-1733" class="post"> <div class="post-content"> <span class="meta"> in <a href="http://www.thejackdaw.co.uk/?cat=3" rel="category">Comment</a> </span> <h2 class="title"><a href="http://www.thejackdaw.co.uk/?p=1733" title="Permalink to Dick French: On The Town – March 2017" rel="bookmark">Dick French: On The Town – March 2017</a></h2> <div class="entry"> <p>Now my wedge is worn down to a nubbin </div></div><div style="color:#f0f0f0; font-size:12px;margin:auto;padding:0px 30px 0px 30px;position:relative;clear:both;height:100px;margin-top:-101px;background-color:#474747;border-top: 1px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.15);box-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3) inset;"> so I’m trying <h1 style="margin:0; font-size:150px; line-height:150px; font-weight:bold;">404</h1> to scratch a few <h2 style="margin-top:20px;font-size: 30px;">Not Found dibs out of this art world. I’d done a few beauty panels and I’m punting them round town when I meet this dame in Covent Garden. I’ve known her a year or so and
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she’s working the spigot 404 Not Found in </h2> this <p>The resource requested could not be found on this server!</p> bar on Long […]</p> </div><!-- /.entry --> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </div><!-- #post-1733 --> <div class="clear"></div> <div id="post-1731" class="post"> <div class="post-content"> <span class="meta"> in <a href="http://www.thejackdaw.co.uk/?cat=3" rel="category">Comment</a> </span> <h2 class="title"><a href="http://www.thejackdaw.co.uk/?p=1731" title="Permalink to Dick French: On The Town – January 2017" rel="bookmark">Dick French: On The Town – January 2017</a></h2> <div class="entry"> <p>“For we know

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it’s right, it’s in black

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Dick French: On The Town – September 2016

There’s a room in my flat that I rather grandly refer to as ‘The Library’. About 20 years

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