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24 March 2015 Regular marvels

Flowers for Kazuo Ohno (and Leonard Cohen)

Is artistic excellence really incompatible with social purpose? It’s an argument I’ve heard throughout my working life but it has

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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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19 June 2014 The Light Ships

A painful edge to oral history

The Light Ships is proving to be a revelation. An exploration of the church’s place in a community’s artistic life,

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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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4 May 2014 The Light Ships

The Light Ships cast off

‘I feel quite moved that this is happening.’ Mary is the spirit behind ‘Handmade in Moulton’, her village’s arts and

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2 March 2014 From My Life

Restless meanings

Classical music is as important as photography in Terence Davies’ elegiac film about the people and city of Liverpool in

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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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1 September 2013 A Wider Horizon

Generating taste

Among the stories I heard, during my Fenland visits last month, were several concerned with artistic life in rural Norfolk

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