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Category: Winter fires

1 February 2013 Winter fires

‘The Crystal Quilt’, Suzanne Lacy

On Sunday, the American artist Suzanne Lacy will create a new performance piece called Silver Action at Tate Modern in London. She has invited

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24 January 2013 Winter fires

‘When will we get rid of you?’

Elder Abuse in Kyrgyzstan There is an extraordinary series of photographs in the latest issue of Anthropology and Ageing Quarterly

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27 November 2012 Winter fires

Winter Fires: Book now available

Winter Fires: Art and agency in old age is published today. Old age haunts the human imagination. Nowadays, it also

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24 November 2012 Winter fires

Mik Godley’s portraits of older artists

Here are Mik Godley’s final portraits, which are reproduced in Winter Fires. They start with photographs I made, in discussion with the

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16 November 2012 Winter fires

The second book is (nearly) here

Winter Fires is printed, and copies are on their way to London for the launch on 27 November. The work

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12 November 2012 Winter fires

An immodest proposal

In 1729, Jonathan Swift published A Modest Proposal, his brutal satire of English policy in Ireland; in it, he proposed

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4 November 2012 Winter fires

First words (from ‘Winter Fires’)

A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Aristotle, 335 BCE When Edward Said died

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29 September 2012 Winter fires

‘Winter Fires’ publication date

Winter Fires, Art and Agency in Old Age will be published by Baring Foundation on 27 November 2012 and will be

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12 September 2012 Winter fires

Frightening ourselves silly

It is not easy to resist the frightening stories of old age that dominate contemporary culture. Even when programme makers

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15 August 2012 Winter fires

Nothing about us, without us

The draft text of Winter Fires should be complete by the end of August. Everyone who has contributed to it

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