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Topic: Art
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Beyond Bedlam
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In August 1843, the English painter Richard Dadd stabbed his father to death. The Egyptian sun god Osirus told him to. Dadd, an ambitious and accomplished young artist, had returned…
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Project a black planet: the art and culture of pan-Africa
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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, born in London in 1977, is one of the best British artists alive today. Enigmatic, mischievous, troubling, her work comprises rich, densely scrabbled Old Master-like oil portraits of…
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Ink, paper, décentrementThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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The ERB’s designer on the passion and philosophy of making books.
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Festival | MessThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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SARAJEVO — Inda Omerovic Swanke is a television journalist living in Bosnia and Herzegovina. What’s it like moving back to Sarajevo, after thirty years away? It’s inspiring, it’s intense, it’s…
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Museum for one
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I have learned what artistic freedom is. It happened in a secret museum somewhere in Sweden. I had to wade through tall grass toward a windowless barn, painted in faluröd, the…
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The cartography of everything wrong
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So there I am, in a museum in a town that in 150 years has evolved from a community of farmers to an artists’ colony, then to a posh village,…
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The dog who bit everyoneThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Fifty-one years after his death, Pasolini’s vision of capitalism is even more urgent. A new play examines his unfinished masterpiece.
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The cudgellers’ dilemmaThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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What Goya’s Black Paintings can tell us about current Spanish climate struggles.
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Saving the angel
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« This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps…
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« Mother Has Arrived »
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Last Saturday I saw a play called « Mother Has Arrived ». It was written and directed by Than Hussein Clark, an American artist based in Glasgow and Genoa. His…
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Child KingsThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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« Time is a child playing draughts; the kingship is a child’s. »
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Of trotting horses & angelic wordsThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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I was reminded of Muybridge’s moving pictures while looking at the serial attempts of Ambrogio Lorenzetti (d. 1348/49) at rendering the invisible visible.