Though theorists champion it as a model, Barcelona’s Las Agencias was a covered-up disaster
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Cowspiracy
Stop Feeding Your Cancer: One Doctor’s Journey Dr John Kelly Pentheum, 2014 $13.99 Review by Frank Armstrong A documentary called ‘Cowspiracy’ is currently doing the social-media rounds. In time it could have an influence comparable to Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ as the devastating impact of animal agriculture and fishing is laid bare. […]
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By Rónán Lynch. Sean Rainbird grew up in Hong Kong, studied history of art at University College London, joined the Tate where he spent 20 years as a curator of modern and contemporary art before being invited to lead the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart in 2006. He was initially surprised at an invitation into the intensely hierarchical […]
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Crevices of culture.
Review of Rod Stoneman’s Seeing is Believing: The Politics of the Visual. By Richard Callanan. There is nothing to which Rod Stoneman is not willing to turn his attention so a broad canvas had to be created to encompass his writings on everyone from Andrea Mantegna to Banksy. The hoary old statistic about our being […]
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By Michael Smith. Avoca: I hate it. The dead river which has run marinated in copper for a century, the town which spawned the devil’s tv series, Ballykissangel, and now Avoca – the “store”, the café, the nursery, “the shopping and leisure destination”. In recent months I have discovered the joys of dedicated walking in […]
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By Nicola Carroll. ‘My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall. Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand […]
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A Happy Christmas
By Laurence Speight Patrick Kavanagh wrote ambivalently of Christmas in his distinctly anti-modern poem ‘Advent’: “We have tested and tasted too much, lover/Through a chink too wide there comes in no wonder. But here in the Advent-darkened room /Where the dry black bread and the sugarless tea /Of penance will charm back the luxury/ Of a child’s soul, we’ll […]