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Selby Whittingham: Tate Modern or Tate Theatre

A survey by the Office for National Statistics in May revealed that the British are changing their spending habits. Instead of filling our homes 301 Moved Permanently to the rafters with consumer durables and not-so-durables, we’re spending our spare cash on ‘experiences’, including

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recreation and, yes, culture. “People are interested in servicing a lifestyle rather than
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buying stuff,” one trend forecaster commented in […]

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Laura Gascoigne: Reach for the Starchitects – The Switch House

A survey by the Office for National Statistics in May revealed that

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the British are changing their spending 301 Moved Permanently habits. Instead of filling our homes to the rafters with consumer durables and not-so-durables, we’re spending our spare cash on ‘experiences’, including recreation and, yes, culture. “People are interested in servicing
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a lifestyle rather than buying stuff,” one trend forecaster commented in […]

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Editorial – July 2017

WHOLESALE GRATIFICATION  In the last nginx issue I noted the gradual but relentless erosion

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of space allocated to
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historical pictures in Tate Britain. 301 Moved Permanently This contraction will now accelerate because the collection is to be re-hung, yet again, on this occasion thematically – a policy undoubtedly designed to demonstrate the State Art Commandment that all roads shall lead to the Usual […]

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Editorial – May 2017

TATE BRITAIN NEEDS ITS IDENTITY BACK In recent issues I’ve described how since 1945 the education, bureaucracy 301 Moved Permanently and

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exponentially increasing cash for the visual arts have been usurped and dominated by an evolving one-track mindset which, in these pages, is called State Art. This sinister
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subversion of the institutions, predicted before and after the last war by Eliot, Wyndham Lewis and Orwell among […]

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Editorial – March 2017

Is There A Doctor in the House? Dennis Skinner once quipped loudly across the Commons to a faltering Cecil Parkinson at the Despatch Box, ‘It’s the in-breeding that does it!’ I was 301 Moved Permanently reminded of this


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amusing sneer when Doctor Maria Balshaw was announced as Serota’s

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replacement, an elevation met with the customary uncritical lauding with which a fawning Fourth Estate […]

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Editorial – January 2017

Has The


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Arts Council Betrayed Its Origins? Serota

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takes over at the Arts Council this month, 47 years after first being employed by the same body as a regional arts officer in 301 Moved Permanently what was his first job after university. In the interval the Council has developed into a blunt instrument by which State Art, an ethos it co-authored with Serota […]

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Multinational art

In the dash to internationalism the national is trampled underfoot,


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argues Laura Gascoigne. In November, Lund

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Humphries celebrated 75 301 Moved Permanently years of publishing books on British art with an anniversary talk at the ICA titled ‘Is there such a thing as British art?’ It was chaired by Tim Marlow, now of the Royal Academy, and debated by a panel composed of […]

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Evelyn Williams, and another case of the public denied

In the last issue I 301 Moved Permanently considered the case of a single-minded good artist,  David Mulholland from Middlesbrough, whose memory, in the absence of any official recognition or support, has to be kindled for posterity’s sake by friends and family. By The Jackdaw’s usual standard of


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eliciting no comment whatsoever, this

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caused a considerable mailbag from many mentioning other artists who […]

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Tate trustees and the public interest

In 2011 the Tate named two new trustees, one of whom

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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 301 Moved Permanently trustee, she replaced Jeremy Deller, who won
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the Turner Prize in 2004. Abts’s paintings are all the same small size […]

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How state art robs the people

Chances are you won’t have 301 Moved Permanently heard of David Mulholland (1946-2005), a painter of and from Middlesbrough. Until last year,

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when a group of friends devoted to the preservation of his memory sent me some of his pictures, neither had I. The work hit me immediately as authentic, born of intimate feeling for its subject. Most affecting
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were powerful graphite and […]