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Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
What’s so great about David Bowie?
The tsunami of grief following his death doesn’t stop L WILLIAMS asking some pointed questions about the man and his music
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
THE reverberations from the death of some well-known individuals are an interesting phenomenon.
Those who did not know the dead person except as a media construct experience a very real and at times overpowering sense of loss. When Princess Diana died in 1997 you could almost feel it — an unnerving experience and there wasn’t social media around at the time to blame that on.
It seems that the majority of people of a certain age in the overdeveloped world are being carried along by an irresistible current of emotion and are, for the moment at least, incapable of serious reflection.
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