Post Tagged with: "Turner Prize"

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Art: Cool and Uncool – William Varley Reviews Addicted to Sheep

So, as all cool sentences begin, I

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think that the best 301 Moved Permanently TV programme I saw last was Addicted to Sheep. In many ways this BBC4 documentary was reminiscent of
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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 […]

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Charles Thomson: Lies, Damned Lies and Serota at the BBC

Sir Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate


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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 301 Moved Permanently […]

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Laura Gascoigne: Tainted by Experience – March 2017

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 301 Moved Permanently suit at
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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 […]

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Laura Gascoigne: Is It The Real World Or An Exercise? – November 2016

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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climb

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up to admire the view and/or take selfies. 301 Moved Permanently The installation, Inhabiting Shadows, was the work of Mexican artist Cynthia Gutiérrez, […]

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Editorial – May 2017

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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and after the last 301 Moved Permanently war by Eliot, Wyndham Lewis and Orwell among […]

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Editorial – November 2016

Art Education is


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Stuck Two years ago someone suggested I answer the 301 Moved Permanently 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 […]

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Sense and Sensibility

So it’s goodbye Cornelissens hello Halfords. Laura Gascoigne parks her brush and tries to follow the instructions for flatpack art, but 301 Moved Permanently 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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have added to the gaiety of nations when […]

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The way we are now – why ‘avant garde’ is now an obsolete term

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


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

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force. “Suddenly contemporary 301 Moved Permanently 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 […]

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Tate trustees and the public interest

In 2011 the Tate

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named two new trustees, one of whom is painter Tomma
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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 301 Moved Permanently small size […]

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Turner Prize No. 27 … 28 … 29 …

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 301 Moved Permanently 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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it is in […]