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Memories of a Warrior: Chaz Guest

22/01/2022

Chaz Guest brings his vivid scenes of American history to his first New York show in two decades. ...

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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....

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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. ...

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Sound of Belgium

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. ...

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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". ...

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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? ...

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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? ...

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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? ...

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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. ...

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Charting the Rustpiles and Ruins of America’s Dream

07/03/2018

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

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America, Whither Went the Dream?

24/01/2018

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

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America's Lost Innocence

America, What Have You Done?

03/01/2018

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

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

16/11/2017

Archaeologists find earliest evidence of winemaking...

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Load, Wind, Release! Trebuchet Issue Two Launch

25/09/2017

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

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Mount Rushmore

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?...

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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...

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

18/05/2017

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

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Seignosse bunker

Look On My Works, Ye Mighty. And Grind.

19/04/2017

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

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papa che by Dan Booth

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?...

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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...

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anti trump protests

A Nuremberg Rally of One

27/02/2017

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

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papa che by Dan Booth

Hey Patriot, Why Do You Hate Your Country?

18/02/2017

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

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Seven years in Tibet? Try 13,000

08/01/2017

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

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Ancient city

Nothing New Under the Sun – How Prehistory Tackled Global Warming

29/12/2016

Computer models find ancient solutions to modern problems ...

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JL David, Napoleon

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?...

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Tastes Like Cabbage: The Deep Origins of Cooked Veggies

23/12/2016

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

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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...

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Blast, Vorticism

Blasting Out of the Vortex: Wyndham Lewis and Vorticism

17/12/2016

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

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Look Again: The Way of the Morris

03/10/2016

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

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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 ...

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