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18 Aug 2025

Are We the Gods of Our Own Image? Notes on the Virtual Beauty Exhibition (Somerset House 2025) Part 2 (Sections V-VIII)

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  Qualeasha Wood: It's All For U (If U Rlly Want It) (2024) [a] Arvida Byström:  A Daughter Without a Mother  (2022) [b]    Photos take...

Are We the Gods of Our Own Image? Notes on the Virtual Beauty Exhibition (Somerset House 2025): Part 1 (Sections I-IV)

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    Top: Ines Alpha:  I'd rather be a cyborg  (2024)  Bottom: M.C. Abbott,  María Buey González, and Carl Olsson:  Peak Face  (2021)    ...
15 Aug 2025

And Hate Shall Set You Free

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And Hate Shall Set You Free   SA von Hell after William Blake (2025) [a]      I.    "We hate old friends: we hate old books: we hate ol...
14 Aug 2025

On the Need to Fear Ghosts and Hate Witches

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Be thou a witch or a spirit, thou com'st  in such an enchanting form, that I will speak of thee.   [1]      According to William Hazlitt...
13 Aug 2025

A Brief (Somewhat Belated) Note on the Online Safety Act and the Peter Kyle / Nigel Farage Spat

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Peter Kyle MP / Nigel Farage MP   A lot of people are expressing concern about the Online Safety Act (2023); a new set of laws passed to  pr...
12 Aug 2025

There is a Spider Crawling ...

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  'Without spiders, flies would have no wings ...'     Hazlitt's essay opens with a lovely passage about a spider crawling along...
9 Aug 2025

Nigerian Chutzpah: Notes on the Artist Known as Slawn

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Photo of Olaolu Slawn by Georgia Jones  saatchiyates.com      "My style is all about feeling over form ..."      I.    One of the ...
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8 Aug 2025

Reflections on the Summer Exhibition at Saatchi Yates: Once Upon a Time in London (2025)

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Saatchi Yates:  Once Upon a Time in London   12th June - 17th August 2025      I.    Only a few days to go before the summer exhibition at S...