Laura Gascoigne In April Lionel Messi put a signed pair of his adidas football boots up for auction at Christie’s. Customised with the names of his wife and

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nginx/1.21.1 scored 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 This article briefly outlines what happened with the toppling of the Edward Colston statue in Bristol, why it happened and its ramifications. On 7 June 2020, a large protest took

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nginx/1.21.1 place in the centre of Bristol, ostensibly against racism. The large gathering

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was in contravention on national and local restrictions on public gatherings due to COVID-19. No dispersal […]

William Varley reviews Addicted to Sheep So, as all cool sentences

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begin, I think that the best TV programme I saw last was Addicted to Sheep. In many ways this BBC4 documentary was reminiscent of the French film Être

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nginx/1.21.1 et Avoir about a remarkable teacher in a school in the remote Auvergne, although a good deal less winsome. It focused […]

Giles Auty This was the last piece Giles submitted to The Jackdaw. He died suddenly in September, aged 86. It’s

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nginx/1.21.1 all about the money honey. When I awoke to see the front cover of the weekend Australian’s review section on June 20th it was rather like being thrown back into some

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weird and most unwelcome dream. Did I really read […]

Alexander Adams We are told that in many fields women face systematic disadvantage and are under-represented.

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It has become a core belief of many and goes almost unchallenged. When politicians came under pressure regarding supposed gender discrimination in the workplace, the British government conducted a survey of arts organisations.

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nginx/1.21.1 The 2018 report found that women comprise 56% of the British […]

Alexander Adams “Was Lt Columbo’s name really Frank? We’ve all seen the freeze-frame close-ups of Columbo’s ID badge which states that his first

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nginx/1.21.1 name is ‘Frank”. But should we consider this canonical?” I’m becoming more

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and more confused by this ‘canonical’ business. The above is from Columbophile website. I love his joke about the Jewish lady who was walking down […]

Michael Daley Questions proliferate on the disappeared $450 million Leonardo Salvator Mundi. Where is it? Who owns it? Who

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nginx/1.21.1 still believes it a Leonardo? Will

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it be exhibited this year at the Paris Louvre’s big Leonardo exhibition, as promised? Can it be true, as an artnet blogger now claims (on the claimed say-so of “two principals involved in” Christie’s 2017 […]

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nginx/1.21.1 Tacita Dean will be delighted to learn

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that she is having yet another exhibition, this time at the Royal Academy… And it’s well 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 […]