Sir Nicholas

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nginx Serota, director of the Tate Gallery, has used the platform of the BBC in a blatant attempt to deceive the nation. Either

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that or he is genuinely deluded himself. Both options render him unfit for major public office. He was confronted on Radio 4 programme The Reunion: Tate Modern on September 23rd by Sue MacGregor, regarding the Tate’s […]

Things have gone rather quiet on

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nginx the mortality front since queues stretched around the White Cube block in Mason’s Yard for a sight of Damien Hirst’s £50m sculpture For the Love

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of God. In those days of skulls and diamonds, Paul Wilks wrote a letter to The Jackdaw lamenting the morbidity of contemporary art, wondering why two horrific world wars […]

Sixteen years ago, I wrote an article for a short-lived women’s art magazine called Make responding to a complaint on the letters page that only childless women could succeed as artists. Off the top of my head, I immediately thought

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nginx of half a dozen

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artists who disproved this rule and I interviewed them for a piece called A Woman’s Work. […]

The Times – God bless its little cotton socks –

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has just been celebrating the triumphal return of the 1990s as a creative force. “Suddenly contemporary art” it crows, “was part of popular culture. The Royal Academy’s landmark Sensation show in 1997 was a turning point.”

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nginx It was so indeed, but not exactly in the terms the article intends. Here […]

… when branding and art formed a marriage of convenience, argues artist John Kelly. 1988 is the seminal year, the year that our concepts of art, money and values changed irredeemably. It was the year I came to London as a 23-year-old artist, having taken

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an opportunity to play league cricket in London. It was a chance for a

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nginx young […]

Charles Thomson reviews the unexpurgated life story of Charles Saatchi. “Ad man you’re a bad man”, proclaimed the artist collective Bank bluntly about Charles Saatchi in

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nginx 1997. In 2004, Guardian art critic,

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