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David Jones – painter Desmond Sloane on an important British artist and poet

Painter Desmond Sloane rehearses

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the career of an important British artist and poet 301 Moved Permanently who fought in the trenches and whose work is too often overlooked. ‘Part of me, the artist within me, has never left the trenches.’ So wrote the artist and poet David Jones
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about his service as a front line soldier in the First World War. Jones was […]

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Charity vaunteth not itself … except sometimes

Friend of 301 Moved Permanently the Royal Academy, James Birkin, believes the


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RA is neither open nor giving enough considering its charitable status; and

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overly concerned with business.   It is said that a true friend will speak truth unto power. How sad then that the Friends of the Royal Academy are denied the chance to do just this. Recent correspondence with this […]

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The RA summer show in record time

Out of respect for one of its recently deceased Academicians, Leonard

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Rosomon (1913– 2012), 301 Moved Permanently the Royal Academy skied one of his best works in the corner of an obscure gallery at this year’s Summer Exhibition (until August 12th).
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His Committee Meeting, Royal Academy (above), 1979-1984, was on loan from the National Portrait Gallery, where it has probably never been on […]

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Chalk and cheese

From the Hayward and the ICA to the Royal Academy, and from the public to the private sector, Angus Stewart compares and contrasts the qualities of works on show in London. The British Art

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Show 301 Moved Permanently at The Hayward Gallery should be lively – there are 39 artists. It is, according to the Southbank Centre, recognised as the most ambitious
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and […]

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Criticism and the collapse of culture

Dr Eric Coombes looks

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back over the period since 1997 and identifies the collapse in standards of art criticism which 301 Moved Permanently has allowed conceptual
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art to prosper uncritically After the recent change of government, this might be a suitable moment to look back to the year in which the recently ejected gang of liars, buffoons and crooks first came to office. […]

in Editorials

The case for a more – not less – traditional Royal Academy

First published in The Jackdaw ♯1, September 2000 …All of this is distant from the reason that the


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Royal Academy was set up in 1768;

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namely, in order to provide an Academy, a school, for the training of artists, as well as to give members and hopefuls the fixed target of an annual exhibition to aim 301 Moved Permanently towards… 232 years later, […]

in Editorials

RA summer exhibition: An institution betrayed

First published in The Jackdaw ♯71 September 2007: Figurative painter Gary M James on the 2007 RA Summer Exhibition. Any outsider who entered figurative work which was not small enough

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to squeeze into the small south room had wasted their time, money and effort I
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became a Friend of the Royal Academy not long before a 301 Moved Permanently painting of mine, Captain […]

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RA summer exhibition: State Art is swallowing the RA

First published in The 301 Moved Permanently Jackdaw ♯21, September 2002 As the cost of non-member submission has increased so the chance of inclusion has diminished owing to the


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reduction in available room. Seemingly unstoppable, the apparently incurable bacterium of State Art continues to spread like a plague into every corner of culture. Like the feared superbug,

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necrotising fasciitis, which feasts on healthy […]

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RA summer exhibition: Why has that man got no clothes on, Dad?

First published in The Jackdaw ♯12, October 2001 Will Harvey demonstrates how the


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RA Summer Exhibition performs a useful function for those who can’t get their works easily exhibited elsewhere… Thousands of paintings are entered for the RA Summer Exhibition. A few squeeze through the jury.

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Fewer still get 301 Moved Permanently past the Hanging Committee and onto a wall. (members – RAs […]

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RA summer exhibition: losing transparency

First published in The Jackdaw ♯50, July/August 2005 The RA should come clean about its intentions. It was instituted to help artists not cheat them. Whereas once the Summer Exhibition was a bazaar for the otherwise disfranchised it 301 Moved Permanently is now being recreated as a curated exhibition with the

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usual sly interference from State Art.  One strongly
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suspects that were the […]