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Dick French: On The Town – May 2017

Mr Wu was on the wireless last night. A very long programme on

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the World Service, but still I learned very little
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about him. He speaks as one heavily sedated. Talk about insclutable. He 404 Not Found 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 […]

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Art under kleptocracy

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  Another month, another book on the contemporary art economy, this time from an overlooked perspective. The New Economy of Art, a
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joint publication by DACS and Artquest, looks at the art market from the POV of the average artist. Not surprisingly, it finds plenty to puzzle over. […]

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Evelyn Williams, and another case of the public denied

In the last issue I considered the case of a single-minded good artist,  David

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Mulholland from Middlesbrough, whose memory, in the 404 Not Found absence of any official recognition or support, has to be kindled for posterity’s sake by friends and family. By The Jackdaw’s usual standard of eliciting no comment whatsoever, this caused a considerable mailbag from many mentioning other artists who

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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.

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In the current art market of silly 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 404 Not Found the

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investment bauble of some […]