So, as all cool sentences

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begin, I think that the best TV

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nginx/1.21.1 programme I saw 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 deal less winsome. It focused on the lives of the Hutchinson […]

Sir Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate Gallery, has used the nginx/1.21.1 platform

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nginx/1.21.1 of the BBC in a blatant attempt to deceive the

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nation. Either that or he is genuinely deluded himself. Both options render him unfit for major public office. He was confronted on Radio 4 programme The Reunion: Tate Modern on September 23rd by Sue MacGregor, regarding the […]

When the former controller of

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BBC 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 the Beeb for his being

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nginx/1.21.1 ‘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

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nginx/1.21.1 lot of empty plinths where statues of Lenin once stood and last nginx/1.21.1 July, taking a leaf out of the Gormley Sutra, steps were erected around the one in Kiev’s Bessarabska Square so that people could 404 Not Found climb up to admire the view and/or take selfies.

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The installation, Inhabiting Shadows, was the work of […]

TATE BRITAIN NEEDS ITS IDENTITY

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nginx/1.21.1 BACK In recent issues 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 institutions, predicted before and after the last war

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by Eliot, Wyndham Lewis and Orwell among […]

Art Education is Stuck Two years ago someone suggested I

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answer the question ‘What Happened to Art

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nginx/1.21.1 Education?’. This appealed slightly because it was a subject about which I thought I ought to know more than was the case. Something is clearly awry when so many complaints are aired about the poverty of tuition and when degree shows have become […]

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 It’s a dull job being a customs officer, sitting on the

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nginx/1.21.1 border

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twiddling your thumbs until the next teenage drugs mule comes along. So it must have added to the gaiety of nations when […]

The Times – God bless its little cotton socks – has just been celebrating the triumphal return

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of the 1990s as a creative force.

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nginx/1.21.1 “Suddenly contemporary art” it crows, “was part of 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 article intends. Here […]

In 2011 the Tate named two new trustees, one of whom is painter Tomma Abts. She is a 44-year-old

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nginx/1.21.1 German, recently appointed Professor

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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 annual routine, the Turner Prize is upon us again, at Tate Britain, until January

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nginx/1.21.1 6th; the winner – £25,000 better off – is announced to a live television audience of well

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into double figures on December 3rd. Those responsible for organising this banquet of self-congratulation continue to fanfare its importance, but it is in truth […]