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« Everything starts with fire » — Interview with Hélène CixousThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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« The smell was like the sharp notes of a trumpet, a sort of rat-tat-tat like a burst of gunfire, a bombardment. »
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« Ça ira! There will be fire and enthusiasm in you »This article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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In search of Anthon van Rappard, Vincent van Gogh’s forgotten friend.
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Art before artThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On Paleolithic painters & speculative criticism.
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The Archipelago Conversations, an excerpt — Interview with Édouard GlissantThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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An excerpt from The Archipelago Conversations with the late French Carribean philosopher and poet. « The archipelagos of the Mediterranean must encounter the archipelagos of Asia, and the archipelago of…
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Europas & bulls
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A logo might start as a designer’s whim. Only then does one look for meanings to fill it with. On Europas: mythic, artistic, fictional, political, psychological, satirical, and finally unfinished.
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Ballad of a Homburg hatThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On racial metonymy and the art of misidentification. (Meanwhile: has a glass of beer ever been more crisply and deliciously depicted? Has the froth of a European pilsner ever looked…
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Curtain callThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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An iron curtain makes a powerful canvas. Images from Sven Johne & Falk Haberkorn’s Aus Sicht des Archivs, documenting life in the former East Germany in the 1990s.
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A messy optical process
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On orthodoxies & heresies of typography. To serif, or sans-serif?
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The myth of 1922
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What does modern mean? In Brazil, it often meant an embrace of newness as the possibility of reinvention. In Modernity in Black and White: Art and Image, Race and Identity…
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The pinnacle of cartography is the pinnacle of uselessness
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« Europe », drawn from memory or intuition. Thick and thin strokes of charcoal: a nod to the coal and steel on which the polity of modern Europe is founded. But more…
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Only stupidity is hereditary
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There sits a donkey before an open book, held between his forehooves in such a way that we can clearly see the pages. It is a family tree of sorts,…
