Laura Gascoigne

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nginx 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 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

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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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nginx ostensibly against racism. The large gathering was in contravention on national and local restrictions on public gatherings due to COVID-19. No dispersal […]

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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nginx saw last was Addicted to Sheep. In many 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 […]

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

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nginx aged 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 […]

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 workplace, the British government conducted a survey of arts organisations. The 2018 report found that women comprise 56%

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Alexander Adams “Was Lt

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nginx 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’ 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

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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 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

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nginx 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 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 […]