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Thinking about Damian Hirst the other day

by Margaux Williamson   My sister, Tara Williamson, brought up the artist Damian Hirst with me last week. She said they had been discussing his new spot paintings on the radio. She asked what I thought of his work. I … Continue reading

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Tea With Chris: Breathless We Were

Tea With Chris is a roundup of recommended links, posted every Friday. Here are a few of our favourite things from the Internet this week: Chris: “The kind of recombinant horror created by splicing Jessie J and Katy Perry.” My … Continue reading

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Friday Pictures – Jean Laudat

 

 

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Tea With Chris: Collective Slobbering

Tea With Chris is a roundup of recommended links, posted every Friday. Here are a few of our favourite things from the Internet this week: Chris: Reaching the internet’s attention slightly too late for last week’s TWC was this clip … Continue reading

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Friday Pictures – Anders Nilsen

 

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Tea With Chris: Got a Sexy New Dance, It’s Called the Bird

Tea With Chris is a roundup of recommended links, posted every Friday. Here are a few of our favourite things from the Internet this week: Chris: Lisa Hanawalt drew Prince! Or “Prince.” This week’s announcement that the audiovisual archive of … Continue reading

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Tea With Chris: Folksy Chap Schtick

Tea With Chris is a roundup of recommended links, posted every Friday. Here are a few of our favourite things from the Internet this week: Chris: My friend Maura Johnston started a new, much-needed Tumblr, though she may need an … Continue reading

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Friday Pictures – Hennessy Youngman

 

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ART THOUGHTZ: Post-Structuralism (THE CLEAN VERSION)

 

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ART THOUGHTZ: Relational Aesthetics

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ART THOUGHTZ: The Sublime

 

HENNESSY YOUNGMAN’S ART THOUGHTZArtist talk and screening with Jayson Musson at the Drake Hotel January 31 2012

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Ten-plus Cultural Experiences I’m Still Thinking About Now that 2011’s Done with Us

by Carl Wilson  [With trademark untimeliness, Back to the World is presenting a series of belated, cross-genre, year-end lists, as we did last year, and again loosely on the model of Greil Marcus’s long-running Real Life Rock Top Ten. Margaux … Continue reading

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Friday Pictures – FASTWÜRMS

 

 

 

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