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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, aged 86. It’s all about the money honey. When I awoke to nginx/1.17.10 see the 404 Not Found front cover of the weekend Australian’s review section

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on June 20th it was rather

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like being thrown back into some weird and most unwelcome dream. Did I really […]

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Giles Auty: The Vital Value of Dissent

Giles Auty From the raised kitchen window 404 Not Found of my house I can see most of the birds which regularly visit the garden. In summer these are mostly magpies, currawongs and cockatoos while in winter quite large flocks of pale green

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female satin bowerbirds arrive which are often accompanied
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by an all-black male. The latter is, in fact, the only bird […]

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Modernism and the novelty trap

Giles Auty considers the purchase of Jackson Pollock’s Blue Poles by the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra in 1973 and what such an acquisition signifies. A few months back, a rash of articles appeared in the press which 404 Not Found commemorated the dismissal of the Whitlam

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government thirty years ago and commented on the continuing sense
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of grievance felt by his […]

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Lament for a lost, semi-innocent world: Giles Auty remembers St Ives, half a century on from when he first painted there

I paid a first visit to St.

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Ives in the late 1950s and will never forget my first glimpse of the town from the 404 Not Found hill above the railway station. For someone to whom the word ‘sea’ had hitherto largely meant the pebbly
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beaches and endless mudflats of the coast of East Kent, the turquoise water, dazzling white sands and rows […]