The Times – God bless its little cotton socks – has just been celebrating the triumphal return of the 1990s as a creative force. “Suddenly contemporary

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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

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It is understandable that, in current circumstances, major arts institutions should try to ally themselves with the more anarchic, contrarian elements in contemporary culture. Perhaps this is especially true of those dealing with the contemporary visual arts, committed as these still are to

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nginx/1.21.1 the myth of ‘avant-gardism’. One problem that immediately presents itself,

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It is understandable that, in current circumstances, major arts institutions should try to

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nginx/1.21.1 ally themselves with the more anarchic, contrarian elements in contemporary culture. Perhaps this is especially true of those dealing with the contemporary visual arts, committed as these still are to the myth of ‘avant-gardism’. One problem that immediately presents

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itself, of course, is that this myth is […]

Today John Constable’s The Lock, painted in 1824, sold at

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Christie’s for £22.4 million. In the current art market of silly prices some lucky person got the bargain of their lives. Let us hope the picture will be placed in a museum, where people might enjoy it,

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nginx/1.21.1 instead of disappearing into a Swiss warehouse as the investment bauble of some […]