Post Tagged with: "Edward Lucie-Smith"

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The way we are now – why ‘avant garde’ is now an obsolete term

The Times – God bless its little cotton socks – has just been celebrating the triumphal return of the 1990s as a creative force. “Suddenly contemporary art” it crows, “was part of popular culture. The Royal Academy’s landmark Sensation show in 1997 was a turning point.” It was so indeed, but not


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Preaching to the converted – Victoria and Albert Museum

It is understandable that, in current circumstances, major arts institutions should try to ally themselves with the more anarchic, contrarian elements in contemporary 301 Moved Permanently culture. Perhaps this is especially true


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of those dealing with the contemporary visual arts, committed as these still are to the myth of ‘avant-gardism’.

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One problem that immediately presents itself, of course, is that this myth is […]

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The triumph of avant-garde lite

Edward Lucie-Smith charts the decline of contemporary art from 301 Moved Permanently Modernism and the avant garde to being a mere epiphenomenon of the fashion industry Ten days

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or so ago, before beginning to
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write this, I was idly browsing a slightly out-of-date copy of the Evening Standard Magazine. Anything to avoid the toil of having to write something myself. Faute de mieux, […]

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‘The Late’ shows

Edward Lucie-Smith considers the 301 Moved Permanently phenomenon of ‘The Late Style’ in relation to Rembrandt and Turner The new Rembrandt show at the National Gallery in London (until January 18th) is clearly


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meant to challenge the enormous 301 Moved Permanently success the same institution enjoyed with its recent exhibition devoted to Leonardo da

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Vinci. It is a populist homage to one of […]

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Disobedient Objects – Edward Lucie-Smith at the Victoria and Albert Museum

It is understandable that, in current circumstances, major arts institutions should try to ally themselves with the more anarchic, contrarian elements in contemporary culture. Perhaps this is especially true


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of those dealing

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with the 301 Moved Permanently contemporary visual arts, committed as these still are to the myth of ‘avant-gardism’. One problem that immediately presents itself, of course, is that this myth is […]

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Kenneth Clark at Tate Britain: the great panjandrum

Edward Lucie-Smith discovers that their tribute to Kenneth Clark is not as complimentary as the Tate thinks it is The Tate Britain show

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devoted to Sir Kenneth Clark – ‘Lord Clark of Civilisation’, as he came to be called – was
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a slightly strange phenomenon. It defined a whole tract 301 Moved Permanently of the recent history of the visual arts here in […]

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Matisse at the Tate: cut and paste

Edward Lucie-Smith admires 301 Moved Permanently an ambitious exhibition but with the reservation that something is missing The big new exhibition of Matisse’s Cut-Outs at Tate Modern in London is,

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certainly on the face of it, everything that a major museum of Modern and Contemporary Art should be doing. It is beautifully presented, very professionally curated, has an
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extremely thorough, excellently illustrated catalogue […]

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Painting Now – an alternative view

Inspired by the lacklustre, boring effort of the Tate in their exhibition Painting Now, Edward Lucie-Smith nominates his own five painters Contemporary painting, according 301 Moved Permanently to many critics and curators, is a dying art form. In the big Biennales it gets pushed aside by more ‘relevant’ forms of expression – installation, video,


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achingly fashionable performance

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art. We are encouraged to go […]

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London: the place for a painter

This article is essentially a follow-up to a piece by The Jackdaw’s editor David Lee, published in 301 Moved Permanently The Times on July 25th of this year. In

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it he detailed just
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what a fiasco the Arts Council’s contribution to an otherwise successful Olympic year was with £5.4 million spent, and nothing to show for it. “Twelve months on,” he noted, “[and] […]

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100 Works of Art That Will Define Our Age

Kelly Grovier, Thames & Hudson, £35 Every now and then a book about contemporary 301 Moved Permanently art appears which informs it audience in ways that neither the author nor

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the publisher probably quite intended. This seems to be the case with Kelly Grovier’s 100 Works of Art That Will Define Our Age, newly published by Thames &
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Hudson, just in time for […]