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William Varley: Art: Cool and Uncool

William Varley reviews Addicted to Sheep So, as all cool sentences begin, I think that the best TV programme I saw last 301 Moved Permanently was Addicted to Sheep. In many ways this BBC4 documentary was reminiscent of the French film Être et Avoir about a remarkable teacher


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in a school in the remote Auvergne, although a good deal less

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winsome. It focused […]

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Charles Thomson: Lies, Damned Lies and Serota at the BBC

Charles Thomson Sir Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate Gallery, 301 Moved Permanently has used the platform of the BBC in a


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blatant attempt to deceive the nation. Either that or he is genuinely deluded himself. Both options render him unfit for major public

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office. He was confronted on Radio 4 programme The Reunion: Tate Modern on September 23rd by Sue MacGregor, regarding […]

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Giles Auty: Money Culture Notes

Giles Auty This was the last piece Giles submitted to The Jackdaw. He died suddenly

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in September,
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aged 86. It’s all about the money honey. When I awoke to see the front cover of the weekend Australian’s review section 301 Moved Permanently on June 20th it was rather like being thrown back into some weird 301 Moved Permanently and most unwelcome dream. Did […]

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Selby Whittingham: The Temptations of the Wallace Collection

Selby Whittingham “I’m just a 301 Moved Permanently slave / only a slave to you, temptation”. So sang Bing Crosby in 1933 in a song, Temptation, repeated by many famous singers since and, in 1970, in a

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German TV act of Sid Millward & The Nitwits. That shows (it was recorded) Sid presiding over players prey to temptations which
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Alexander Adams: Canon Fodder – November 2017

Alexander Adams November/December 2017 Alexander Adams investigates


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the status of the canon in art under Post-Modernism

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and the dangers of undervaluing it. The 301 Moved Permanently canon 301 Moved Permanently of great art has never been the target of greater ire than it is today, but many leftist critics and their traditionalist opponents misunderstand the canon. The truth is unsettling for both groups. […]

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Giles Auty: The Vital Value of Dissent

Giles Auty From the raised kitchen window of my house I can see most of the


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birds which regularly visit the garden. In

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summer these are mostly magpies, currawongs and cockatoos while in winter quite large flocks of pale green female satin bowerbirds arrive which are often accompanied by an all-black 301 Moved Permanently male. The latter is, in fact, the only bird […]

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Eric Coombes: The Destruction of Art Education and its Implications for School Pupils

Eric Coombes The near-destruction in the western world of a centuries-long tradition of visual education could be described – hyperbolically but not misleadingly – as having been


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accomplished overnight. The inherited gifts of that tradition are now being 301 Moved Permanently casually, ungratefully and even malevolently thrown away. In its chronologically long-range survey, What Happened to Art Education? provides

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the context in which […]

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Selby Whittingham: Curatorial Incontinence

Selby Whittingham When Napoleon removed Europe’s art treasures to France on


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the grounds that their rightful place was not with “slaves” but “in the bosom of a free people”, some might cynically think that this was not just 301 Moved Permanently a

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piece of enlightenment, but that it was very convenient that the new home for them happened to be Paris.  Likewise, when […]

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Selby Whittingham: Tate Modern or Tate Theatre

Selby Whittingham A survey by the Office for National Statistics in May revealed that the British are changing their spending habits.

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Instead of filling our homes to the rafters with consumer durables and not-so-durables,
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we’re spending our spare cash on ‘experiences’, including recreation and, yes, culture. “People are interested in servicing a lifestyle 301 Moved Permanently rather than buying stuff,” one trend forecaster […]

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Selby Whittingham: Rhodes Revolution or Reform

Selby Whittingham “Rhodes will

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likely fall,” gloomily writes
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Professor Nigel Biggar (UnHerd, July) after a decision by Oriel College, of which he was once chaplain, in favour of that. Another Rhodes watcher, Lars Larundson, says that the vote was taken amid thunder, lightning and 301 Moved Permanently torrential rain, perhaps an indication of internal dissension as much as of Rhodesian displeasure (The Critic, […]