Porky pies and Apple sauce
Infinite Loop
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Organisation under scrutiny
Group Relations Management and Organisations - Organisations Evolving
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Buddhas, bronzes and Brits
Indian Art
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Gazing lovingly at bad taste
Bhupen Khakhar
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How fine art and design coexist
Art and Design
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Rock art windows on the past
Aboriginal Art
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Sixteenth-century painting learnt without going to schools
Dürer to Veronese
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novelist who could tell his Tom Collins from his Harvey Wallbanger: " Though I haven't ever been on...
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Higher channels
John Davies on the broadcasting week ahead (all times pm unless stated). Pick of the week Despite its unconvincing first episode, dreadful music and dubious reconstructions, BBC2's Ape-man series has...
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A new twist in an old turn of phrase
Noam Chomsky is taking linguistics in yet another direction. Domenico Pacitti reports It might come as a surprise to British professors, but, according to American linguistics professor Noam Chomsky...
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Enter through Real Life, exit in Nude
When the Tate Modern opens in May, will visitors like the radical grouping of art into 'Nude' or 'Object', or simply get lost looking for the masterpieces? asks Karl Sabbagh. Right, the academics'...
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Enter through Real Life, exit in Nude
"The difficulty of seizing the common principle that pervades all the fine arts has been much enhanced by the disposition I to refer to one particular school as the sole measure of excellence," wrote...
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Enter through Real Life, exit in Nude
The Tate's decision to organise its collection around themes rather than around dates is academically sensible. It is a transparent and convenient method of organising artworks and one that doesn't...
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The best a man can get
Beards may be unpopular among the Blair boys, but Jennifer Wallace talks to academics who are (mostly) resisting the razor. First Alastair Darling shaved off his "demonic" black beard. Then Peter...
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Oxbridge: beta-minus-minus
Having viewed universities on both sides of the pond, Simon Blackburn finds Oxbridge graduate studies quaint and less than professional. Anyone seeing the recent flare-up of argument over the rival...