Sir Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate Gallery, has used the platform of the BBC in a blatant attempt to deceive the nation. Either that or he is

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nginx genuinely deluded himself. Both options render him unfit for major public office. He was confronted on Radio 4

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programme The Reunion: Tate Modern on September 23rd by Sue MacGregor, regarding the Tate’s […]

“Why is there so much sewing?” demanded The Art Newspaper’s 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

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textile arts were prized above all others; when first unveiled in […]

When the former controller of BBC Radio 3 John Drummond published an autobiography in 2001, he called it ‘Tainted by Experience’ – an ironic reference to the

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reason given by a Birtist suit at the Beeb for his being ‘let go’ a decade earlier. I haven’t read the book,

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nginx but the expression was used by William Varley in a positive […]

Who now remembers the fashion for wearing your trousers backwards? It was all

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nginx the rage in Camden Town about ten years ago. They had to be the very baggy “gangsta” variety. You rarely see it nowadays. So fashion changes… except in the Art World, which has been stagnant for fifty

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years. I’m looking forward to seeing the new film about […]

The latest masterpiece from the Professor of Drawing is the cover for the tube map. She does a fair warbler with its beak open and trots it nginx out at regular intervals. “When in doubt

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a bird with its beak open,” advised the Prof as she stepped down from the Margate Express. It was commissioned for a special map […]

It’s the headgear that does it. Gives it away completely.

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nginx Without it you’d be none the wiser. But the miner’s lamp makes it beyond any doubt. This is the Professor of Drawing at work on her most important finished presentation piece yet,

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a celebration of the 301 Moved Permanently Wigan pit girls of the 19th century. Such economy of line, […]

Out of respect for one of its recently deceased Academicians, Leonard Rosomon (1913– 2012),

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