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8 Apr 2023

In Memory of Two Dead Artists: Malcolm McLaren and Pablo Picasso

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Malcolm admiring Picasso's Woman with Yellow Hair (1931) at the Guggenheim (c. 1984) [1]     Doubtless many well-known people have died...
7 Apr 2023

Easter with the Anti-Christ: In Praise of Pontius Pilate

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"I was born and came into the world to testify to the truth.  All who love the truth recognise that what I say is true."       ...
3 Apr 2023

In Memory of Georgia Brown (1933-1992)

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Georgia Brown as seen in A Study in Terror   (dir. James Hill, 1965)   "A carefree, goodtime girl you see / Queen of swell society ......
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29 Mar 2023

Reflections on Andy Warhol's Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century (1980)

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Andy Warhol: Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century (1980)  Top row: Franz Kafka, Gertrude Stein, Martin Buber, Albert Einstein and...
28 Mar 2023

On the Art and Necessity of Coffin Sleeping

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Sarah Bernhardt (1880) and Toyah Willcox (1979) demonstrate the art of coffin sleeping I.   An anonymous reader writes with reference to a r...
26 Mar 2023

In Memory of Sarah Bernhardt (1844 - 1923)

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Sarah Bernhardt (aged 21)  Photo by Félix Nadar (1865)   "Mon vrai pays est le plein air et ma vocation est l'art sans contraintes....

How the Metaverse Reduces Us All in Stature

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As Paul Murray's waist chopped avatar soon discovers:   "The greatest poverty is not to live In a physical world ..." [1]    ...
25 Mar 2023

On Natural Evil

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What fresh hell is this that befalls us?     I.    A reader writes: "I enjoyed your recent short post on flowers and the question of ev...
23 Mar 2023

All Flowers are Evil (Even Lilies of the Valley)

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Lily of the valley ( Convallaria majalis ) Photo by Ivar Leidus on Wikimedia Commons     A reader writes:   "I was shocked to discover ...
18 Mar 2023

Arborcide in the U. K.

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Jamie Reid: Anarchy in the U. K. flag design  for the Sex Pistols first single on EMI (1976)  Reimagined by Stephen Alexander (2023)     I....