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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 been celebrating 404 Not Found 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

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not

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exactly in the terms the article intends. Here […]

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Preaching to the converted – Victoria and Albert Museum

It is understandable that, in current circumstances, major

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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, 404 Not Found committed as these still are to the myth of ‘avant-gardism’. One problem that immediately presents itself,
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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 current circumstances, major arts institutions should try to ally themselves with the more anarchic, contrarian elements in contemporary culture. Perhaps this 404 Not Found is especially true of those dealing with the contemporary visual arts,

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committed as these still are to the myth of ‘avant-gardism’. One problem that immediately presents itself, of course, is

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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 of silly prices some

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lucky person got the bargain of their lives. Let us hope the picture will be placed in a museum, where 404 Not Found people might enjoy it, instead of disappearing into a Swiss warehouse as
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the investment bauble of some […]