So, as all cool sentences begin, I think that the best TV programme I saw

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last was Addicted to Sheep. In many ways this BBC4 documentary was reminiscent of the French film Être et Avoir about a remarkable teacher in a school in the remote Auvergne, although a good 301 Moved Permanently deal less winsome. It focused on the

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Although I no longer live permanently in Britain, I have been fascinated to learn about

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the apparent stir caused there recently by this worthy and unusual little

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nginx book. The feelings of indignation and outrage which underwrite it are understandable. Yet even the fiercest cultural arguments seldom seem to stir much in the way of violent emotions in Britain. By custom […]

TATE BRITAIN NEEDS ITS IDENTITY BACK In recent issues

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I’ve described how since 1945 the education, bureaucracy and 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 subversion of the

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nginx institutions, predicted before and after the last war by Eliot, Wyndham Lewis and Orwell among […]

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 reminded of this amusing sneer

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when Doctor Maria Balshaw was announced as Serota’s replacement, an elevation met with the customary

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Art Education is Stuck Two years ago someone suggested I answer the question ‘What nginx Happened to Art Education?’. This appealed slightly because it was a subject about which I thought I ought to know

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more than was the case. Something is 301 Moved Permanently clearly awry when so many complaints

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Pictures of Nothing and Very Like John Moores Exhibition 2016 Most of Europe’s countries are either bankrupt or in economic meltdown, their infrastructure crumbling and public services reduced;

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the Middle East and Levant are in post-apocalyptic ruin, in part the result of lies told in our own Parliament; an exodus of desperate humanity is seeking refuge from a criminal

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Among the least impressive legacies of arts administrators’ obsession with Modernism and its aftermath is the impossibility

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of predicting a work’s status solely from

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nginx its appearance. You might form your own view about it, but you can’t predict what State Art’s opinion will be because there are no published criteria or guidelines for making such a judgement. You can’t second […]

The separate bodies contributing

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to State Art are now so interrelated, so cosily acquainted, their personnel so readily interchangeable and of identical mindset, that they might as well join forces. (… Liz Forgan is sacked from the

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What is the difference between

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nginx a line of 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

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Nostra are 301 Moved Permanently undoubtedly the subtler of the two coteries represented, both have a common interest […]

In the last issue I 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 eliciting no

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comment whatsoever, this caused a 301 Moved Permanently considerable mailbag

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