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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

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– has just been
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celebrating the triumphal return of the 1990s as a creative force. “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 301 Moved Permanently exactly in the terms the article intends. Here […]

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Preaching to the converted – Victoria and Albert Museum

It is understandable

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that, in current circumstances, major arts institutions should try to ally themselves with the more anarchic, contrarian elements in contemporary culture. Perhaps this is

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especially true of those dealing with the contemporary visual arts, committed as these 301 Moved Permanently still are to the myth of ‘avant-gardism’. One problem that immediately presents itself, of course, is that this myth is […]

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Disobedient Objects – Edward Lucie-Smith at the Victoria and Albert Museum

It is understandable that, in

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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

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visual 301 Moved Permanently arts, committed as these still are to the myth of ‘avant-gardism’. One problem that immediately presents itself, of course, is that this myth is […]

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Selling England by the pound

Today John Constable’s The Lock, painted in 1824, sold at Christie’s for £22.4 million. In the current art market

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of silly prices 301 Moved Permanently 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, instead of disappearing into a Swiss warehouse as the investment bauble of

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some […]