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

The Times – God bless its little cotton 404 Not Found socks – has just

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been celebrating the triumphal return of the 1990s as a creative force. “Suddenly contemporary art” it crows, “was
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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 […]

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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

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anarchic, contrarian elements in contemporary culture. Perhaps this is especially true of those dealing with the 404 Not Found contemporary visual 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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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 is especially true

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of those dealing with the

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contemporary visual arts, committed as these still are to 404 Not Found 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

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Christie’s for £22.4 million. In the current art market 404 Not Found of silly

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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, instead of disappearing into a Swiss warehouse as the investment bauble of some […]