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Giles Auty: Money Culture Notes

Giles Auty This was the last piece Giles submitted to The

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Jackdaw. He died suddenly in September, aged 86. It’s all about the money honey. When I awoke to see the front cover of the weekend 404 Not Found Australian’s review
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section on June 20th it was rather like being thrown back into some weird and most unwelcome dream. Did I really read […]

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Giles Auty: The Vital Value of Dissent

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From
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the raised kitchen window of my house I can see 404 Not Found 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 female satin bowerbirds arrive which are often accompanied by an all-black male. The latter is, in fact, the only bird […]

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Giles Auty: 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 404 Not Found such an acquisition signifies. A few months back, a rash of articles

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appeared in the press which commemorated the dismissal of the Whitlam government thirty years ago and commented on the continuing sense of

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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

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