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Time is running out. This is especially true for a bungalow at Knipe Point in Scarborough, North Yorkshire. Coastal erosion means that a once desirable property which offers stunning views of Cayton Bay and the surrounding area, is doomed to collapse into the sea at any moment. But for landscape artist Kane Cunningham, this condemned house is an exciting opportunity. It is a symbol, a point at which a vast array of contemporary artistic, political and economic concerns converge. In Mr… Continue

More than ever, contemporary works of art, literature and music are condemned as derivative, commoditized and superficial. Damien Hirst has recently given up plans to produce a canvas littered with one million tiny spots painted not by himself, but six employees. His current exhibition No Love Lost, on show at the Wallace Collection, London, has been described as being dangerously close to ripping off Francis Bacon, without the latter’s painterly talent and rich in adolescent…

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