Tag: The arts

  • Art Versus Capital

    Many an artist have understandably taken stabs, with varying degrees of skill and success, at indicting capitalism and all its execrable effects. Rebecca Harding Davis’ short story, or novella, if you like, Life in the Iron Mills (1861), is one of the first, certainly one of the best and, given its mastery, one of the […]

  • The Ignorant Imperative: Hannah Gadsby on Pablo Picasso

    The humourless comedian Hannah Gadsby has much to thank one of the twentieth century’s titans of art.  By placing him in the stockade of feminist disapproval, the Australian was picking the easiest target and avoiding the most profound questions of his oeuvre.  To be so personal, and play the man with such indignation, is the […]

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