“Why is there so much sewing?” demanded The Art Newspaper’s Christina Ruiz

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nginx after visiting Christine Macel’s exhibition at this year’s Venice Biennale. “I get it: domestic work, women’s work, is important and undervalued. But is it in itself art? No it is not.” There was a time

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when so-called textile arts were prized above all others; when first unveiled in […]

Ever since Anya Gallaccio made her name by exhibiting an

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nginx ice block called Intensities and Surfaces in an East London pumping station in 1996, I’ve been monitoring the advance of ice through the

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contemporary art world, where it seems resistant to climate trends prevailing elsewhere. While the polar ice caps recede, the phenomenon of ice art only grows. I wouldn’t […]

                          Another month, another book on the contemporary art economy, this time from an overlooked perspective. The New

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nginx Economy of Art, a joint publication by DACS and Artquest, looks at the art

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market from the POV of the average artist. Not surprisingly, it finds plenty to puzzle over. […]

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

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nginx been celebrating the nginx triumphal return of the

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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 exactly in the terms the article intends. […]

In the dash to internationalism the national is trampled underfoot, argues Laura Gascoigne. In November, Lund Humphries celebrated 75 years of

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publishing books on British art with an anniversary talk at the ICA titled ‘Is there such a thing as

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nginx British art?’ It was chaired by Tim Marlow, now of the Royal Academy, and debated by a panel composed of […]

The separate bodies contributing to State Art are now so interrelated, so cosily acquainted, their personnel so readily interchangeable and of identical mindset, that they might as well join

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forces. (… Liz Forgan is sacked from the Arts Council but remains a Trustee of the

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nginx Art Fund; James Lingwood swallows his annual  million from the Arts Council and also sits […]