‘There’s distance between Andy Burnham and the things that make people most angry, or despairing, about Starmer: his response to the Israeli slaughter in Gaza, his dalliance with Peter Mandelson.’
@jamesmeek.bsky.social on Burnham’s vision.
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‘Perhaps Duchamp was aware of his own limitations, or maybe he realised that his true interests lay elsewhere, not in “retinal” painting (as he put it dismissively) but in cerebral art: he was primarily an ideas man.’
Hal Foster on the Marcel Duchamp retrospective.
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In 1973, when a Marcel Duchamp retrospective was last staged in the United States, the critic Lucy Lippard declared...
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It might be wise not to be too optimistic about Andy Burnham bringing miracles of delivery, and focus instead on his...
I’ve written in the @lrb.co.uk about James Bryce, very carefully brought to life by @stuartjones.bsky.social. Bryce managed to balance academia and politics better than anyone could today. His thirst for prizes seems endearingly quaint, but the decline of the cursus honorum has had its downsides