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5 September 2021 Traction / Uncategorized

The difference between a professional and a non-professional artist – Part 2

What does ‘professional’ mean? Like many words, professional has changed its meaning over the course of history, adapting itself to society’s evolving

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3 September 2021 Traction

The difference between a professional and a non-professional artist – Part 1

This photograph of the artists working on Irish National Opera’s Out of the Ordinary project was taken on 20 August 2021, at

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24 September 2014 Bread and Salt

Dark matter

The title of Sardul Gill’s exhibition refers to the unknown material whose presence physicists deduce from gravitational data. Like much

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16 September 2014 Regular marvels

The spirit of independence

The Independent Theatre Council is celebrating its 40th birthday today, with an event at the Royal Festival Hall in London.

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15 July 2014 Regular marvels

Can you see beyond the tent?

Nicole & Martin live in a caravan: it may be the least interesting thing about them. People who live settled

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24 May 2014 Regular marvels

Authorship and authenticity

 In 1841, a young father and musician was kidnapped in Washington DC, shipped in chains to New Orleans and sold

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17 April 2014 From My Life

Misguided visionaries and rigid minds

From My Life is the most ambitious Regular Marvel so far, and it is already testing some aspects of the

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24 February 2014 From My Life / Winter fires

‘Every day in life is beautiful’

‘Music is in the first place of art. It brings us on an island with peace, beauty and love. Music

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8 February 2014 Regular Marvels in Theory

RMT2 – Citation

Why do writers quote other writers? The reasons are complex, and do not preclude such weaknesses as showing off—no one

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11 January 2014 From My Life

The story of the story

‘What is this shit?’ The opening words of Greil Marcus’ 1970 review of Bob Dylan’s Self Portrait have become a

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