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Helen Frankenthaler works on a painting in her studio, 1957.

Photo: Burt Glinn via Magnum Photos

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M10-R Noctilux-M 50mm f/1.2

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Jack Robinson     Cellist Jacqueline du Pré and Pianist Daniel Barenboim    c.1967

“We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.” Jacqueline du Pré

“Despite the fact that as an art, music cannot compromise its principles, and politics, on the other hand, is the art of compromise, when politics transcends the limits of the present existence and ascents to the higher sphere of the possible, it can be joined there by music. Music is the art of the imaginary par excellence, an art free of all limits imposed by words, an art that touches the depth of human existence, and art of sounds that crosses all borders. As such, music can take the feelings and imagination of Israelis and Palestinians to new unimaginable spheres” Daniel Barenboim, 2004

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What Schadenfreude looks like.

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Abso brills. 

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Oskar Schlemmer’s costume for the Triadic Ballet, Bauhaus, 1922.

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Moral panic

The removal of the Waterhouse painting in Manchester is only another black eye for the city.

I recall a time when religious fundamentalists sought to ban photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe because they were “pornographic.”

Only a philistine would demand that art be moral.

Curators need the “creator” to sell to a public which is addicted to celebrity. They’ve sold the artist, not the art, for a long time. Hence, they remain behind the times intellectually for financial reasons.

The public, and the journalists who write for it, were never were educated in semiotics, structuralism, modernist aesthetics, etc., to begin with.

I remember when a man of the cloth called for the “extermination” of the Sex Pistols.

Arendt never apologised for being Heidegger’s lover.

Althusser murdered his wife, but no one demanded the New Left Review close its shop.

Épater la bourgeoisie.