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The Artists of Fitzroy Crossing.
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The Artists of Fitzroy Crossing.
The New Yorker last week had a long article on indigenous australian artists, which provided certain cautionary tales about the market, among other things. The aborigines have the longest continuous history of art ma[…]

Conduit right
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Conduit right: I’m thinking that the Conduit Mandee links to below should perhaps be this Conduit, which I haven’t seen before but which looks at a cursory glance to be flash-heavy and fine.
I am attracted to the thought, though, that ea[…]

possessing photographs
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possessing photographs
My sisters like to accuse me of inventing memories that never happened in the first place. Older sister says this because the memories are so obscure, and seem to have no place in the order of other memories; like the time the[…]

Bridget Riley at Tate Britain: Size Does Matter
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Bridget Riley at Tate Britain: Size Does Matter
Some of the later work is rather limp, though I like some of her vertical/diagonal grid paintings, with colouring that may be on some scheme that I’ve not grasped yet, but is anyway sometimes comp[…]

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A Computer called LEO
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A Computer called LEO
There have been enough documentaries covering Station X, Alan Turing and the Enigma code for most people to make a decent stab at some of the details of the birth of the digital computer. But aside from the urgent need to get on[…]

Nick Crowe – Getting On
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Nick Crowe – Getting On
It’s about slow-acting guilt. We wander along as part of a Sunday afternoon pub – gallery stroll and decide to drop in at the Chisenhale because Steve was taught by Nick Crowe. It had been billed as “a[…]

The Buzz
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The Best Of Funny Folk
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This is a selection of the Funny Folk cartoons which ran on Freaky Trigger during 1999. Script and Art by Al Ewing except * where Script is by Al and Tom Ewing.
“Choke – it’s predicted DOOM – for ME!”
“I’ll &[…]

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