Category Archives: visual art

by b2tw | February 22, 2012

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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Tagged as Alexander McQueen, Damian Hirst, dialogue, England, Kate Moss, Maureen O'Sullivan, microexpressions, Paul Ekman

by b2tw | February 17, 2012

Friday Pictures – Jean Laudat

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by b2tw | February 10, 2012

Friday Pictures – Anders Nilsen

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Tagged as Andres Nilsen, Big Questions, Dogs & Water, Drawn and Quarterly

by b2tw | January 27, 2012

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 THOUGHTZ - Artist talk and screening with Jayson Musson at the Drake Hotel January 31 2012

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by b2tw | January 25, 2012

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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by b2tw | January 20, 2012

Friday Pictures – FASTWÜRMS

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by b2tw | January 19, 2012

List of mostly good things, big and small, that I can remember from the world in 2011 – in order of rememberance

by Margaux Williamson 1. Remembering what a brilliant idea feels like – Occupy Wall Street It was a simple and brilliant idea – that people could “occupy” a space in addition to protesting it, that the power and action could … Continue reading →

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