Peter Howson with one of his most recent works, Wagner.
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Painting with renewed purpose at 65, Peter Howson has overcome his demons to take his place as one of Britain’s leading contemporary artists.
The ‘It’s okay to be white’ poster campaign, seen in the context of reacting to ‘Black Lives Matter,’ cannot be seen as benign.
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Posters with the phrase “It’s okay to be white” were found around the campus of the University of Manitoba. What does it really mean?
Participants in the March for Science, marching on Constitution Ave. in Washington, D.C. in April 2017 after listening to speakers at Washington Monument on a rainy Saturday Earth Day.
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Rationality is the newest casualty of populist philosophy.
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Whether you loved him or hated him, his canonical status is beyond question.
Kevin Bacon as the arrogant Dick in the Amazon drama based on Chris Kraus’s 1997 novel of the same name.
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The relevance of the female gaze is brought sharply into focus in this funny, shocking and groundbreaking drama
© Richard Mosse: still frame from Incoming, showing at the Barbican Centre’s Curve gallery.
It needn’t end this way.
Not much of that about…
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Brexit and Trump aren’t to blame. The rise of ‘post-truth’ is rooted in the middle-classes, not the masses.
Are we living in a postmodern screen dream?
Angst when you forget your smartphone is not only a real psychological phenomenon–it also highlights a quintessentially postmodern problem: what the author calls the “anxiety of the disconnected”.
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The alternate reality visualised in Star Wars is now potentially much closer to home.
Architect and designer Michael Graves in a 1962 photograph. Graves passed away earlier this month.
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From his line of Target homeware to his one-of-a-kind buildings, Michael Graves was inspired by the basic needs of everyday people.
Modernism is typified by a commitment to exploratory experimentation.
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I first came across modernism through the lens of postmodernism in the early 1980s. At that time postmodernism – explained here – was washing through the academy, promising to transform everything by placing…