So, as all cool sentences begin, I

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think that the best TV programme I saw last was Addicted to Sheep. In many ways this BBC4 documentary was reminiscent of

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nginx the French film Être et Avoir about a remarkable teacher in a school in the remote Auvergne, although a good deal less winsome. It focused on the lives of the Hutchinson […]

Sir Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate

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nginx Gallery, has used the platform of the BBC in a blatant attempt to deceive the nation. Either that or he is genuinely deluded himself. Both options render him unfit for major public office. He was confronted on Radio

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

When the former controller of BBC

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Radio 3 John Drummond published an autobiography in 2001, he called it ‘Tainted by Experience’ – an ironic reference to the reason given by a Birtist suit at

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nginx the Beeb for his being ‘let go’ a decade earlier. I haven’t read the book, but the expression was used by William Varley in a positive […]

The Ukrainians have a lot of empty plinths where statues of Lenin once stood and last July, taking a leaf out of the Gormley Sutra, steps were erected around the one in Kiev’s Bessarabska Square so that people could

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up to admire the view and/or take selfies. The installation, Inhabiting Shadows, was the work of Mexican artist Cynthia Gutiérrez, […]

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

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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 institutions, predicted before

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

Art Education is

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

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clearly awry when so many complaints are aired about the poverty of tuition and when degree shows have […]

So it’s goodbye Cornelissens hello Halfords. Laura Gascoigne parks her brush and tries to follow the instructions for flatpack art, but has the picture upside down

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It’s a dull job being a customs officer, sitting on the border twiddling your thumbs until the next teenage drugs mule comes along. So it must

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nginx have added to the gaiety of nations when […]

The Times – God bless its little cotton socks – has just

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nginx been celebrating the triumphal return of the 1990s as a creative

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force. “Suddenly contemporary art” it crows, “was part of 301 Moved Permanently popular culture. The Royal Academy’s landmark Sensation show in 1997 was a turning point.” It was so indeed, but not exactly in the terms the […]

In 2011 the Tate

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named two new trustees, one of whom is painter Tomma

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

Having slipped into its tedious

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annual routine, the Turner Prize is upon us again, at Tate Britain, until January 6th; the winner – £25,000 better off – is announced to a live television audience of well nginx into double figures on December 3rd. Those responsible for organising this banquet of self-congratulation continue to fanfare its importance, but

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nginx it is in […]