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		<title>Academic Artist? Oxymoron?</title>
		<link>http://belcheresque.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/academic-artist-oxymoron/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
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There was a time when the phrase ‘academic artist’ was synomonous with a certain conservatism and use of traditional strophes that reflected the academic virtues of fine handling of paint, drawing of a certain standard and a certain ‘resemblance’ to the world of the viewer who would recognise the metaphors and the world that produced [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=belcheresque.wordpress.com&blog=798678&post=963&subd=belcheresque&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nottingham Contemporary: The good, the bad and the ugly..</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
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I have recently had to pull a discussion post from the Nottingham Contemporary Free discussion group on facebook. Here I explain why and deliver a more considered version of basically the same material which less likely to offend the great and the good of this noble art city.
The post was a hasty response to seeing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=belcheresque.wordpress.com&blog=798678&post=953&subd=belcheresque&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Damien Hirst revealed as bad painter&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://belcheresque.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/damien-hirst-revealed-as-bad-painter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>art dog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fake artists, fake academics..a sad low, dishonest decade (to paraphrase Auden) of infantile, greedy pseudo intellectuals&#8230;
and here the best of them all&#8230;greedy bankers, brit artists, mps expenses&#8230;.spot the difference?
I can&#8217;t stop laughing at Hirst&#8217;s &#8216;paintings&#8217; what next Tracy Emin starts on bronze-casting? can&#8217;t wait&#8230;.to hell with the whole sad bunch of fakes&#8230;.

Almost every review shows [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=belcheresque.wordpress.com&blog=798678&post=949&subd=belcheresque&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hill of money &#8211; mountains of cash</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has come to my attention that the Arts Council of England. A glorious body of noble souls are at this time perusing some submissions for a large wad of cash &#8211; 12 X £5000,000 &#8211; for specific art projects related to the glorious Olympiad of 2012.
Now I thought that every hair-brained, stupid artistic nonsense [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=belcheresque.wordpress.com&blog=798678&post=943&subd=belcheresque&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Moogee returns&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>art dog</dc:creator>
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Yes that damn dog is back and this time he&#8217;s got sharper teeth..

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		<title>World&#039;s Largest Henry Moore?</title>
		<link>http://belcheresque.wordpress.com/2009/02/16/worlds-largest-henry-moore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 10:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>art dog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After all the gnashing of artist&#8217;s brushes over Wallinger&#8217;s Horse maybe we should honour my hometown&#8217;s pile of concrete instead ..to be frank I prefer the Power Station   Indeed Marina Warner argued for its preservation after it decommissioned as a Modernist Monument to the age of power and energy consumption..that may be sooner [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=belcheresque.wordpress.com&blog=798678&post=763&subd=belcheresque&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Altermodernism is the new world order&#8230;discuss..</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>art dog</dc:creator>
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This just about summed up how clapped out and inane the contemporary art scene is&#8230;.not content with just posing inane speculative theory grounded in nothing or as Bourriaud states..
Like modernism and postmodernism, though, it’s not easy to sum up in a sentence. When I ask for the one-line Wikipedia version of the theory, Bourriaud is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=belcheresque.wordpress.com&blog=798678&post=739&subd=belcheresque&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Postmodernism is dead? Really?</title>
		<link>http://belcheresque.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/postmodernism-is-dead-really/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>art dog</dc:creator>
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http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/altermodern/manifesto.shtm
Altermodern
Manifesto
POSTMODERNISM IS DEAD
A new modernity is emerging, reconfigured to an age of globalisation – understood in its economic, political and cultural aspects: an altermodern culture
Increased communication, travel and migration are affecting the way we live
Our daily lives consist of journeys in a chaotic and teeming universe
Multiculturalism and identity is being overtaken by creolisation: Artists are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=belcheresque.wordpress.com&blog=798678&post=733&subd=belcheresque&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dancing on the YBA grave&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>art dog</dc:creator>
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A response to a Jonathan Jones blog entry on the Guardian website
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2009/jan/30/contemporary-british-art-recession?
A generation of lo-fi subversives may finally have found something to be lo-fi and subversive about. After all, Hirst, Whiteread and their generation found their striking voices at a moment of recession.
The artists who think like this are kidding themselves.
Thankyou JJ I am pleased [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=belcheresque.wordpress.com&blog=798678&post=700&subd=belcheresque&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The New Depression Gallery</title>
		<link>http://belcheresque.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/the-new-depression-gallery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
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To be serious for a moment (it happens) the last post  from Badam saddens me greatly. I too was a &#8217;serious&#8217; artist with unpaid bills, a freezing studio, an interview at Goldsmiths (same year as Hirst if accepted..I wasn&#8217;t ..too serious for the times it appears..Fuller/Bacon self-portraiture didn&#8217;t &#8216;hang&#8217; well with a interview panel of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=belcheresque.wordpress.com&blog=798678&post=628&subd=belcheresque&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You had it Cumming</title>
		<link>http://belcheresque.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/you-had-it-cumming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>art dog</dc:creator>
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Laura Cumming finally gets it right????????&#8230;.
It is not only the artists and galleristas that at fault but also the reams of mediocrity served up by so called critics who happy to party on their benefactors terms until the party over&#8230;

It is obvious to anyone with eyes that art has become more vulgar and rebarbative during [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=belcheresque.wordpress.com&blog=798678&post=605&subd=belcheresque&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>X-Factor for art &#8211; the arts devalued</title>
		<link>http://belcheresque.wordpress.com/2009/01/26/x-factor-for-art-the-arts-devalued/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>art dog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Reality TV has nothing to offer the art world

Charles Saatchi, the Citizen Kane of the art world, is about to transform himself into the Andrew Lloyd Webber of art.
A new BBC2 series, Saatchi&#8217;s Best of British, will see him preside over a contemporary art reality show, comparable with Lloyd Webber&#8217;s I&#8217;d Do Anything. Talented hopefuls [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=belcheresque.wordpress.com&blog=798678&post=585&subd=belcheresque&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Golden Goose is dead&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://belcheresque.wordpress.com/2009/01/17/ian-jack-in-the-guardian/</link>
		<comments>http://belcheresque.wordpress.com/2009/01/17/ian-jack-in-the-guardian/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 10:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>art dog</dc:creator>
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Splendid article in today&#8217;s Guardian on rise and recent fall of feeble art world prices&#8230;
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/17/art-buying-recession
This my comment on the article..
I have been tapping on a very isolated typewriter in the cold northern lands here for a long time on just the point Mr. Jack makes so well.
The artists and dealers scurried after the Pied Piper [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=belcheresque.wordpress.com&blog=798678&post=571&subd=belcheresque&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy New Year</title>
		<link>http://belcheresque.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/rip-nottingham-contemporary-art-scene/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>art dog</dc:creator>
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Posted in moogee says       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=belcheresque.wordpress.com&blog=798678&post=552&subd=belcheresque&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Waterlogged: Surrendering the Physical Space</title>
		<link>http://belcheresque.wordpress.com/2008/11/17/waterlogged-surrendering-the-physical-space/</link>
		<comments>http://belcheresque.wordpress.com/2008/11/17/waterlogged-surrendering-the-physical-space/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:48:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>art dog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Response to Waterlog: Fables of the Saturation (Saturn&#8217;s Rings)


The Collection Lincoln.

Running from September 15 to December 16 2007, this group show featured new commissions by seven leading artists, all on the theme of the water drenched landscapes of the east of England. 
In particular, the film, photography, sound and text works are inspired by the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=belcheresque.wordpress.com&blog=798678&post=538&subd=belcheresque&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>’Squaring the Circle’ &#8211; from student to practitioner to facilitator:</title>
		<link>http://belcheresque.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/%e2%80%99squaring-the-circle%e2%80%99-from-student-to-practitioner-to-facilitator/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:54:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>art dog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Critical reflections on the delivery of fine art teaching as learner and practitioner.
Re-post &#8211; written 2004
2004 marks the 27th year from my enrolment on an Art and Design Foundation Course at Oxford Polytechnic (now Brookes University) and this essay will critically examine both my experience as a learner in various institutions in that period and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=belcheresque.wordpress.com&blog=798678&post=525&subd=belcheresque&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Turner Prize</title>
		<link>http://belcheresque.wordpress.com/2008/09/29/the-turner-prize/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>art dog</dc:creator>
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Posted in art criticism, galleries, London art scene, moogee says, politics, turner prize       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=belcheresque.wordpress.com&blog=798678&post=516&subd=belcheresque&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stuck in the past? : Serota and Stuckists</title>
		<link>http://belcheresque.wordpress.com/2008/09/29/stuck-in-the-past-serota-and-stuckists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>art dog</dc:creator>
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As a professional &#8216;misery guts&#8217; and also a professional creative I somehow come from both sides of
the argument at the same time&#8230;.
Having taken all that bitter rant to a new location by transforming it into the artwork itself how thendo the more scathing of the above commentators ( especially the first past the post nocturnal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=belcheresque.wordpress.com&blog=798678&post=508&subd=belcheresque&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bacon and hash&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://belcheresque.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/bacon-and-hash/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>art dog</dc:creator>
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Comment on Jonathan Jones blog entry &#8216;Francis Bacon: The man&#8217;s a bloody genius&#8217;
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2008/sep/15/francis.bacon
I was so dazzled by both the myth and the man that I tried to be him for a brief few years in 1980&#8217;s before the fever lifted. I&#8217;d agree that he not better than Matisse or Picasso that a given ..I&#8217;d also [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=belcheresque.wordpress.com&blog=798678&post=494&subd=belcheresque&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ozymandias</title>
		<link>http://belcheresque.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/ozymandias/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>art dog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[a comment posted on Jonathan Jones blog
&#8216;Could the economic crisis affect art?&#8217;
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog
As I live on another planet to the London-based coterie the notion that the art world around here will change at all is an amusing one. You won&#8217;t miss what you never had comes to mind. The only money spent on art in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=belcheresque.wordpress.com&blog=798678&post=490&subd=belcheresque&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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