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Kings Never Die: Christian Boltanski’s Esprit

11/01/2022

The Manege's Central Exhibition Hall holds Esprits, Christian Boltanski’s first-ever solo exhibition at St Petersburg....

Tacita Dean, Blackboard drawing, Courtesy Marian Goodman

Drawing With Dust: History, Time and Place in Tacita Dean’s Chalk Drawings

31/03/2021

Those old enough will recall the spine-tingling screech of chalk across classroom blackboards, the air full of dust. ...

History Remixed to a New Beat

24/02/2021

Belgian New Beat fuelled a perfect storm of moral panic on a French TV report about the scene. Yet like punk, condemnation made it more successful. ...

When Gonzo Met Farce

05/06/2020

Conception unknown, The Buried Spitfires of Burma: A ‘Fake’ History is a tortured love child of Thompson’s Rum Diary and Poe’s "Gold Bug". ...

Precious Nothing Pt 3: I Ching

08/05/2019

Space-time contains value on all human levels of understanding so where do we sit with it? ...

Precious Nothing Pt 2: Borges

01/05/2019

Space-time contains value on all human levels of understanding so where do we sit with it? ...

Precious Nothing Pt 1: Pi

24/04/2019

Space-time contains value on all human levels of understanding so where do we sit with it? ...

John Dee and the Empire of Angels

12/09/2018

Recommended to those wishing for an in-depth summation of a fascinating figure and general readers who want their hair blown back by a rollicking historical tale. ...

Charting the Rustpiles and Ruins of America’s Dream

07/03/2018

Tumbleweed and dust, neon and rust. Of such are mythologies made....

America, Whither Went the Dream?

24/01/2018

On the hunt for the spectres of an American dream long departed...

America, What Have You Done?

03/01/2018

A photographic journey into America's lost innocence...

Bubble, bubble, plop! Your Dad Didn’t Invent Homebrew Wine

16/11/2017

Archaeologists find earliest evidence of winemaking...

Load, Wind, Release! Trebuchet Issue Two Launch

25/09/2017

Azimuth calculated, trajectory defined. Trebuchet's second print issue - launched...

Flags, Statues, Genocide and the Trash Can of History

23/08/2017

If tearing down statues could redress the wrongs of history, why stop at Confederates?...

In the Hands of Cod – How Fish Unified Europe Before Brussels

08/08/2017

DNA from Viking cod bones suggests 1,000-year history of European fish trade...

Hunter-Gatherers to Farmers. The Question isn’t When, It’s WHY?

18/05/2017

Why did hunter-gatherers first begin farming? ...

Look On My Works, Ye Mighty. And Grind.

19/04/2017

Buried hubris and follies of personality along southern France's Atlantikwall...

USA as World’s Policeman? We’re Going to Need More Coffins

09/03/2017

If the USA is 'the world's policeman', is it any wonder the world is so scared?...

Buckingham Palace, The Will of the People

Democratic Stitch Ups and the Untouchable Will of the People

01/03/2017

Autocracies fail in the long run because the people much prefer to oppress themselves than be oppressed...

A Nuremberg Rally of One

27/02/2017

No book burning is required when the masses of the consumer state do not read books....

Hey Patriot, Why Do You Hate Your Country?

18/02/2017

Participation mystique is intoxicating, but ultimately futile against hate...

Seven years in Tibet? Try 13,000

08/01/2017

Research sheds new light on high-altitude settlement in Tibet ...

Nothing New Under the Sun – How Prehistory Tackled Global Warming

29/12/2016

Computer models find ancient solutions to modern problems ...

President Trump, Napoleon and The Eclipse of Dignity

29/12/2016

Does history, art or philosophy offer any survival tips for the incoming US presidency?...

Tastes Like Cabbage: The Deep Origins of Cooked Veggies

23/12/2016

Earliest evidence discovered of plants cooked in ancient pottery ...

Choose Your Ally Carefully. Why Trust the CIA?

18/12/2016

Just because the CIA is saying what we want to hear doesn't make them credible...

Blasting Out of the Vortex: Wyndham Lewis and Vorticism

17/12/2016

From catastrophe comes creativity - Sail into the Vortex....

Look Again: The Way of the Morris

03/10/2016

Forget the decades of Pythonesque ribbing, Morris dancing is deep rooted folk ritual...

Then Wash Your Hands: The Pathogens of Prehistoric Poo

23/07/2016

Ancient feces provides earliest evidence of infectious disease being carried on Silk Road ...

Post-Sanders Disillusionment? Not if You Know Your Democrat History

25/06/2016

here is speculation that Bernie’s Big Misadventure in the sucker-fleecing, traveling carnival of the Democratic Party Primary system will cause disillusionment with the Party. You think? But...

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