“Why is there so much sewing?” demanded The Art Newspaper’s Christina Ruiz after visiting Christine

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Macel’s exhibition at this year’s Venice Biennale. “I get it: domestic work, women’s work, is important and undervalued. But is it in itself art? No it is

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nginx/1.21.1 not.” There was a time when so-called textile arts were nginx/1.21.1 prized above all others; when first unveiled […]

WHOLESALE GRATIFICATION  In the last issue I noted the gradual but relentless erosion of space allocated to historical pictures in Tate Britain. This contraction will now accelerate because the collection is to be re-hung, yet again, on this occasion thematically

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nginx/1.21.1 – a policy undoubtedly designed to

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demonstrate the State Art Commandment that all roads shall lead to the Usual Suspects. […]

Who now

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nginx/1.21.1 remembers the fashion for wearing your trousers backwards? It was all the rage in Camden Town about ten years ago. They had to be the very baggy “gangsta” variety. You rarely see it

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nowadays. So fashion changes… except in the Art World, which has been 404 Not Found stagnant for fifty years. I’m looking forward to seeing the […]

I may frequently express criticisms about their finer workings but British museums and galleries are generally superbly run. Heroic efforts are made to minimise the impact of funding

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nginx/1.21.1 cuts so that even regular visitors will notice little or

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no impact. From looking at the outward face of our museums you would never guess the country was in anything like the […]

In 2011 the Tate named two new trustees, one of

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nginx/1.21.1 whom is painter Tomma Abts. She is a 44-year-old German, recently appointed Professor of Painting at 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

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paintings are all the same small size […]

The Turner Prize

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nominees and winners came up with a predictable set of embarrassing posters for the Olympics. Apart

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nginx/1.21.1 from the perpetrators themselves, no one could be 404 Not Found found to say nginx/1.21.1 a good word about their efforts. Someone needs to get a grip. First we were presented with an inept logo which had cost £400,000 for what […]

Today John Constable’s The Lock, painted in 1824, sold at Christie’s for £22.4 million. In

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the

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nginx/1.21.1 current art market of silly prices some lucky person got the bargain of their lives. Let us hope the picture will be placed in a museum, where people might enjoy it, instead 404 Not Found of disappearing into a Swiss warehouse as the investment […]

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 won the Turner Prize in 2006. As an artist trustee, she

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replaced Jeremy Deller, who won

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nginx/1.21.1 the Turner Prize in 2004. Abts’s paintings are all the same small size (48 […]