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Documentary producer, director and writer Andrew McCarthy has been fascinated by the First World War since boyhood. He and former ‘Punch’ magazine archivist Amanda-Jane Doran are now co-authors of ‘The Huns Have Got My Gramophone! Advertisements from the Great War’, published last month by Bodleian Library Publishing. The authors’ imaginative way in to the events […]
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Early last week leading supermarket chain Morrisons were forced to apologise as it created uproar for using the giant wings of the Angel of the North as a free billboard to advertise the price cut of a French baguette.
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The Turner Prize celebrates its 30th anniversary this year and the four shortlisted artists who are competing for the £25,000 controversial but prestigious award are; Duncan Campbell, James Richards, Ciara Phillips and Tris Vonna-Michell.
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In 2005 Paul Harfleet planted a pansy on a street in Manchester…
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In 1937, the Nazi party staged the Degenerate Art Exhibition in Munich. Designed to inflame public opinion against modernism, the exhibition was hugely popular attracting over a million visitors. Such art was banned on the grounds that it was un- German or Jewish Bolshevist in nature, and those identified as degenerate artists were subjected to sanctions. These included being dismissed […]
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Hi my name is Joanne and I have OCD, that is to say I am an Obsessive Compulsive Doodler.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzV6mXIOVl4 There are so many good films out at the moment. However, after seeing Her I think Spike Jonze is doing something new. I have always thought there was a lot of potential for exploring the impact modern technology has on the human psyche but had never found it done in a satisfying way. I found […]
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Hannah Hoch was a member of Berlin’s Dada movement in the 1920s, and was a driving force in the development of 20th century collage. As this is the first major exhibition of her work in Britain, this study visit is going to be popular…
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I read with interest Eva Wiseman’s article in The Observer on Sunday 22 December 2013 titled “Our addiction to photographing our lives”. There has been a long fascination with photography and its function in relation to memory. In my academic writing I have investigated both the process of remembering and that of forgetting. This article […]
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It seems both interesting and curious that whilst our classical concert programmes are packed tightly with music written in the 18th and 19th centuries, the popular literary diet is not! We balance the occasional new pieces in our regular concert repertoire with quite an excess of older pieces from that period. Yet our interest in […]
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