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Laura Gascoigne – A Way with the Pixels

Laura Gascoigne

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In April Lionel Messi put
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a signed pair of his adidas football boots up for auction at Christie’s. Customised with the names of his wife and sons, they were the ‘game-worn’ boots in which the Barcelona striker scored 301 Moved Permanently his 644th goal for his club, beating Pele’s previous record of 643 for Santos. Perfumed with the player’s DNA, they […]

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Alexander Adams: Cancelled Culture

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At Home with Dick French

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Alexander Adams: The Colston Statue Affair

Alexander Adams This article briefly outlines what happened with the toppling of the Edward Colston statue in

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Bristol, why it happened and its ramifications. On 7 June 2020, a large protest took place in the centre of Bristol,
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ostensibly against racism. The large gathering was in contravention on national and local restrictions on public gatherings due 301 Moved Permanently to COVID-19. No dispersal […]

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William Varley: Art: Cool and Uncool

William Varley reviews Addicted to Sheep

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So, as all cool sentences begin, I think that the best TV programme I
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saw last was Addicted to Sheep. In many 301 Moved Permanently ways this BBC4 documentary was reminiscent of the French film Être et Avoir about a remarkable teacher in a school in the remote Auvergne, although a good deal less winsome. It focused […]

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Giles Auty: Money Culture Notes

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


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aged 301 Moved Permanently 86. It’s all about the money honey. When I awoke to see the front cover of the weekend Australian’s review section on

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June 20th it was rather like being thrown back into some weird and most unwelcome dream. Did I really read […]

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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

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has become a core belief of many and goes almost unchallenged. When politicians came under pressure regarding supposed gender discrimination in the 301 Moved Permanently workplace, the British government conducted a survey of arts organisations. The 2018 report found that women comprise 56%
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Alexander Adams: What is Critical Theory and Why Should I Care?

Alexander Adams “Was Lt


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Columbo’s name really Frank? We’ve all seen the freeze-frame close-ups of Columbo’s ID badge which states that his first name is ‘Frank”. But should

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we consider this canonical?” I’m becoming more and more confused by this ‘canonical’ 301 Moved Permanently business. The above is from Columbophile website. I love his joke about the Jewish lady who was walking down […]

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Michael Daley: Selling a Leonardo with Oomph

Michael Daley Questions proliferate on the disappeared

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$450 million Leonardo Salvator Mundi. Where is it? Who owns it? Who still believes it a Leonardo? Will it be exhibited this year at 301 Moved Permanently the Paris Louvre’s big Leonardo exhibition, as promised? Can it be true, as an artnet blogger now claims (on
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Michael Daley: A Life Drawing

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Fans of Tacita Dean will be delighted to learn that she is having yet another exhibition, this time at the Royal

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Academy… And it’s well 301 Moved Permanently up to her usual standard. This time she is “exploring the genre of landscape in the broadest sense.” Well, broad is the word. She’s blown up a number of black and white photos […]