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Laura Gascoigne: Tangled Web – September 2017

“Why is there so

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much
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sewing?” demanded The Art Newspaper’s 301 Moved Permanently 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 was a time when so-called textile arts were prized above all others; when first unveiled in […]

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Editorial – January 2017

Has The Arts Council Betrayed Its Origins? Serota takes over at the Arts Council this month, 47


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years after 301 Moved Permanently first being employed by the same body as a regional arts

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officer in 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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Serpentine Gallery: charity begins at home

                              The ever


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so charitable Serpentine, which gives the public indigestible quantities of what it can’t stomach, held an annual summer bash for all its rich mates, and, blow me down, guess 301 Moved Permanently who deigned to show up. He’s probably not been at

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the gallery since last […]

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Serpentine Gallery: working at home

The last three editorials have dealt with a 301 Moved Permanently charity called the Serpentine Gallery. We’ve observed limousines lined up outside signifying whose

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interests the gallery really 301
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Moved Permanently serves. We have identified overmanning and fat cat pay increases for two directors. And, last time, we highlighted an outside PR agency working between press and gallery in order to disarm justified […]

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Serpentine Gallery: the black art of hushing it up

Most readers will be unfamiliar with


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Bolton and Quinn 301 Moved Permanently Ltd, a company which is the subject here. Invisible to the public

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at large, they operate in a murky hinterland between major galleries and the media encouraging positive coverage of State-approved art. One definition of State Art might simply cite a list of B&Q’s clients, for all the major promoters of […]

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Fat cats in the park

Arts administrators cleaning up in the name of charity In 2011, the Arts Council screamed daily that

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it was losing over 30%
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of its annual taxpayer subsidy. “Difficult decisions” and “hard choices” resulted in it cutting 301 Moved Permanently completely annual grants to 206 organisations, making many redundant. The Serpentine, meanwhile, was awarded the special status of “a regularly funded organization” – i.e. […]

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The Serpentine as fat cat

Why should the interests of those in limousines be


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subsidised by the rest of us? What is the difference between 301 Moved Permanently a line of

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black limousines at a Mob funeral in Brooklyn and an identical cavalcade at the opening party of the new Serpentine Gallery annexe in Hyde Park? Well, not as much as you’d think. Although Cosa Nostra are undoubtedly […]

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Serpentine Gallery extension: limousines are good causes

What is the difference between a line of black limousines at a Mob

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funeral in Brooklyn and an identical cavalcade at the opening party of the new Serpentine Gallery annexe in Hyde Park? 301 Moved Permanently Well, not as much as you’d think. Although Cosa Nostra are undoubtedly the subtler of the
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two coteries represented, both have a common interest in protection rackets. […]