Mr Wu was on the wireless

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last night. A very long programme on the World Service, but still I learned very little about him. He speaks as one heavily

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nginx/1.17.9 sedated. Talk about insclutable. He dwells in a large bunker under Berlin with 6,000 three-legged stools and some lifejackets. There was no mention of the poison beans, maybe he’s sold them […]

                          Another month, another book on the

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contemporary art economy, this time from an overlooked perspective. The New Economy of Art, a joint publication by DACS and Artquest, looks at

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nginx/1.17.9 the art market from the POV of the average artist. Not surprisingly, it finds plenty to puzzle over. […]

In the last issue I considered the case of a single-minded good artist,  David Mulholland from Middlesbrough, whose memory, in the absence of any official recognition or support, has to be kindled for posterity’s sake by friends and family. By

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nginx/1.17.9 The Jackdaw’s

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usual standard of eliciting no comment whatsoever, this caused a considerable mailbag from many mentioning other artists who […]

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

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nginx/1.17.9 art market of silly prices some lucky person got the bargain of their lives. Let us hope the picture will

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be placed in a museum, where people might enjoy it, instead of disappearing into a Swiss warehouse as the investment bauble of some […]