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Snobbery or hierarchy? On “minor” art forms
Researching for a review of a book and exhibition on botanical art, I had pause to consider what the “minor art forms” (in the visual arts) are and why…
May 24 • 
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Basil Beattie: Seething with Invention
A current London exhibition shows a veteran master painter at the top of his game.
May 23 • 
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Return to which tradition? Reflections on Niko Pirosmani
Considering Georgian painter Niko Pirosmani caused me to think about the appeal and pitfalls of primitivism for dissenters today.
May 14 • 
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History as a battlefield
Two recent history books expose the limitations of modern historians.
May 11 • 
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Are most artists ready “to flip”?
A recent conversation got me thinking about elite theory, art production and state art...
Apr 20 • 
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Baudelaire: Scandalous and Impoverished in Belgium
A new translation of Baudelaire's last writings gives us an insight into a desperate man.
Apr 17 • 
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Philip Guston, Dissenting Painter
Reviewing reissued books (for The Jackdaw) in the run up to a large exhibition at Tate Modern, London (opens October), led me to consider Philip Guston…
Apr 9 • 
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"Burroughs Unbound"
In 1974 Burroughs talked of viruses spliced to together by biologists, he then goes on to discuss the verbal collage as a virus. A new book publishes…
Apr 5 • 
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