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2002-12-27 - 7:12 a.m.

We all went to see Jack and the Beanstalk at the local theatre which included Neil and Christine Hamilton amongst the cast � she as the Fairy Battleaxe and he as the local nobleman. It was really good fun � quite traditional with all the elements the pantomimes are meant to have. I can�t remember the last time I went to one. James said that he was surprised that the audience were so drunk. I can�t say that I was.

I read about the complex relationship between Clement Greenberg and Jackson Pollock. CG had a grand theory of what art ought to be like and he picked P to exemplify this theory even though in reality P wasn�t a perfect case. He stuck with Pollock and consistently promoted him as the greatest of modern artists and was a major factor in Pollock getting recognised. The CG-JP axis became an entity on the artscene and later artists and critics reacted to it as such without properly understanding what Pollock might really be up to � the understanding was bocked by a failure to get past a theory which didn�t fit that well anyway..

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