“Why is there

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nginx so much sewing?” demanded The Art Newspaper’s Christina Ruiz after visiting Christine 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 not.” There

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was a time when so-called textile arts were prized above all others; nginx 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 – a policy undoubtedly

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nginx designed to demonstrate the State Art Commandment that all roads shall lead to the

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Usual Suspects. […]

Who now 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 nowadays.

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So fashion changes… except in the

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nginx Art World, which has been stagnant for fifty years. I’m looking forward to seeing the new film about […]

I may frequently

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nginx 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 cuts so that even regular visitors will notice little or no

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

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Painting at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf,

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nginx 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 Turner Prize nominees and winners came up with a predictable set of embarrassing posters for the Olympics. Apart from the perpetrators themselves, no one could be

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found to say a good word about their efforts. Someone needs to get a grip. First we were presented

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nginx with an inept logo which had cost £400,000 for what looked like two minutes […]

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

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nginx the current art market of silly prices some lucky person got the bargain

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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,

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nginx she replaced Jeremy Deller,

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