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February 26, 2013February 26, 2013

Marcel Duchamp, Portrait of Chess Players, 1911

Unlike a piece of writing or a piece of art, it is easy enough to get started with a game of chess. The game of kings offers a limited number of openings. You might never use more than a couple. For this reason, and several others, most creative people should…

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March 21, 2012

David Dawson, Mirror in Studio (2004)

Like many a good artist’s studio, that of Lucian Freud required a mirror. And when David Dawson was in the studio it would have become a rich metaphor. Freud‘s longterm assistant was also a painter. The master would also paint Dawson. And Dawson in turn made portraits of his employer…

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March 17, 2012March 17, 2012

Opposition to the Jerwood Gallery in Hastings

Pictured above is a view from upstairs at the brand new Jerwood Gallery in Hastings. If those fishing boats weren’t already picturesque enough, now they are framed. At the foot of the shot is a yellow poster. And as you might know, there are several of these nearby, all voicing…

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  • Asheq Akhtar
  • Johanna Billing
  • David Blandy
  • Gerard Byrne
  • The Chapman Brothers
  • Marcus Coates
  • Stephen Cornford
  • Martin Creed
  • Jeremy Deller
  • Tamsin Dillon
  • Dominic from Luton
  • Karl England and Ben Street
  • Tessa Farmer
  • Omer Fast
  • John Gerrard
  • Gerald Laing
  • Michael Landy
  • Glenn Ligon
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  • Daria Martin
  • Karelle Ménine
  • Jaume Plensa
  • Daniel Pryde-Jarman
  • Asher Remy Toledo
  • John Russell
  • Semiconductor
  • Bob and Roberta Smith
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  • Gavin Turk
  • John Virtue
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  • A Kick Up The Arts
  • AFTER THE END.
  • An Paenhuysen
  • Another Design Blog
  • Art Fag City
  • Art is Life
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  • Artwrit
  • Bad at Sports
  • Beyond the Stalking mode
  • Blissblog
  • Brian Dupont: Artist's Texts
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  • Dead Hare Radio
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  • Eyeteeth
  • greg.org
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  • Jonathan Jones at the Guardian
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