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Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
Risk taker, mould breaker, myth maker
David Bowie was simply an all-round pop genius , writes James Walsh
JAMIE BRITTON invites readers to visit 3,500 locals as part of a marathon artistic pub crawl
JOHN GREEN welcomes a valuable and incisive analysis of a world become hyperpolitical but without the mass movement institutions to represent it
JAMES WALSH is moved by a provocative and original take on the relationship between ecology and architecture, and a plea to work with, not against, the materials and minerals of our world
An immersive, participatory display by a queer Australian Aboriginal performer, and a rebellious unravelling of traditional Scottish dance
SAUDADE isn’t an English word but I wish it was, so I am appropriating it for international socialism.
It describes a state of profound nostalgic, melancholic longing for something or someone that one loves but is forever gone — or didn’t exist in the first place.
There has been a lot of it about over the past few weeks, largely in the context of chameleon entertainer and all-round pop genius David Bowie, whose artistic reaction to his own impending death was the match of his 1970s triumphs.
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