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Tiffany Jenkins
A Scottish license to kill culture
Bureaucrats north of the border seem to be on a mission to bleed all the spontaneity out of Scotland's thriving cultural scene.
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| Friday 2 March 2012 |
Tim Black
In defence of the Luddites
200 years after Lord Byron’s tub-thumping speech about the Luddites, let us distinguish those radicals from today’s eco-miserabilists.
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| Monday 16 January 2012 |
Manick Govinda
Licensed to censor performance art
By treating adults like children, the 2003 Licensing Act is being used to undermine the freedom of both artists and audiences.
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| Thursday 1 December 2011 |
Sarah Boyes
This project should have set alarm bells ringing
Get as many Brits as possible to ring bells for the Olympic Games? Has the cultural establishment gone cuckoo?
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| Thursday 17 November 2011 |
Angus Kennedy
Leonardo da Vinci: a curious humanist
The National’s blockbuster show of the Renaissance master’s paintings is a great tribute to human genius and creativity.
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| Thursday 17 November 2011 |
Tiffany Jenkins
Close the doors on The Public
A Midlands arts centre offers a cautionary tale of what happens when social policy trumps artistic content.
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| Tuesday 18 October 2011 |
Tim Black
Booker Prize: trusting the public would be novel
While literary types have arid debates about ‘readability’, the rest of us seem excluded from the conversation.
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| Tuesday 5 July 2011 |
Tiffany Jenkins
Culture: it’s not the economy, stupid!
Plans to get UK cultural institutions to measure the economic value of art are both philistine and futile.
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| Tuesday 28 June 2011 |
Jan Bowman
The barbarians within the arts establishment
The drive to use art to change people’s behaviour is as contemptuous of us as it is of culture.
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| Thursday 21 April 2011 |
Tim Black
The art of pissing Christians off
By attacking Andres Serrano’s artwork ‘Immersion (Piss Christ)’, French Christian fundamentalists play into the artist’s hands.
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| Monday 28 February 2011 |
Dolan Cummings
‘The artist formerly known as global warming’
Two new plays show that climate change is better understood as a moral issue rather than a scientific one.
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| Wednesday 9 February 2011 |
Tim Black
Liberal snobbery moves into ‘top gear’
The fuss over a joke about Mexican cars shows how the elite’s disdain for Jeremy Clarkson fans has turned nasty.
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| Wednesday 22 December 2010 |
Neil Davenport
Another year of mocking the masses
The TV-viewing hordes are said to have no taste, but it’s Oxbridge graduates who come up with rubbish shows.
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| Friday 3 December 2010 |
Sean Collins
Jonathan Franzen: the Great American Malthusian
Franzen’s deep misanthropy prevents Freedom from being a good novel: his characters’ lack of nobility means they just aren’t interesting.
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| Wednesday 1 December 2010 |
Nathalie Rothschild
It’s a Kodak moment: the end of Kodachrome
The vice-president of the last place on Earth that still processes Kodachrome film talks to spiked.
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| Friday 19 November 2010 |
Nathalie Rothschild
Is Sarah Silverman a true taboo-buster?
Her new autobiography reveals that the ballsy comedian is not the fearless taboo-buster fans and critics might have thought she was.
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| Wednesday 10 November 2010 |
Roderick Brown
Taking the fun out of videogames
Enough of these family-friendly, green, fat-burning games — let’s get back to slaughtering zombies.
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| Wednesday 10 November 2010 |
Tessa Mayes
Playing around with documentaries
A new breed of factual games reduces the two great media of documentaries and computer games to crass infotainment.
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| Tuesday 12 October 2010 |
Johan Norberg
Don’t give him the Nobel – he’s right-wing!
Swedish leftists are outraged that Mario Vargas Llosa won the Nobel Prize for literature, because he isn’t ‘one of us’.
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| Tuesday 17 August 2010 |
Sharmini Brookes
This bullying of Blyton is jolly trying
Top-down tinkering with Enid Blyton’s books implies children can’t cope with difficult and offensive words. But they can.
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