If you’re thinking of committing an art crime, now’s your moment. In June budgetary pressures forced the ‘temporary’ closure of the Met’s Art & Antiques Squad and the transfer

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nginx/1.21.1 of expert staff to the Grenfell Tower fire investigation, and there’s no knowing when, if ever, they’ll be back. So it’s bye-bye blue light, hello green light to thieves, fakers, fraudsters

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Among the least impressive legacies of arts administrators’ obsession

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nginx/1.21.1 with Modernism and its aftermath is the impossibility of predicting a work’s status solely from its appearance. You might form

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your own view about it, but you can’t predict what State Art’s opinion will be because there are no published criteria or guidelines for making such a judgement. You can’t second […]

Among the least impressive legacies of arts administrators’ obsession with Modernism

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and its aftermath is the impossibility of predicting a work’s status solely from its appearance. You might form your own view about it, but you can’t 404 Not Found predict what State Art’s opinion will be because there are no published

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nginx/1.21.1 criteria or guidelines for making such a judgement. […]

In 2011 the Tate named two new trustees,

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one of whom is painter Tomma Abts. She is a 44-year-old German, recently appointed Professor of Painting at

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nginx/1.21.1 the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf, who won the Turner Prize in 2006. As an artist trustee, she replaced Jeremy Deller, who won the Turner Prize in 2004. Abts’s paintings are all the same small size […]

The Tate recently named two new trustees, one of whom is painter Tomma Abts. She is a 44-year-old German, recently appointed Professor of Painting at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf, who

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nginx/1.21.1 won the Turner Prize in 2006. As an artist trustee, she replaced Jeremy Deller, who won the Turner Prize in

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2004. Abts’s paintings are all the same small size (48 […]