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Hotel El Duce
Dan Dubowitz’s latest photography exhibition starts at Fermynwoods next month. These pictures predominantly of youth camps from the fascist era grew, as Dan’s projects do, out of a series of road...
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A True Commonwealth
Jordan Baseman’s excellent art piece which was displayed at the Collective Gallery in Edinburgh earlier this year tiptoes cleverly around some of the aesthetic and political issues that surround...
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Ruskin in Venice
The years that John Ruskin spent in Venice are no longer just an important biographical fact about an eminent art Victorian critic. They have become a narrative prism through which to assess...
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All The People
Just a short walk north from the Olympic stadium, up a canal dug in the 1770s, is the Hackney Marshes. Unprepossessing on a weekday with the wind whipping in from the west, this site has in a fact...
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The Pompidou Centre Inside Battersea Power Station
Lord Rogers failed to cast himself as the hero in his disagreement with the Prince of Wales over Chelsea Barracks last year. Far from being seen as a defender of democracy from authoritarian influence,...
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Of Montreal
After the establishment of the Committee d’Organisation des Jeux Olympique (COJO) in 1972, the body tasked with not just running the Olympic Games in Montreal but controversially to build the...
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Souvenirs For Buildings That Don’t Exist
There is a moment in Superman III when good Superman returns from having defeated Robert Vaughan and undoes all the errors of bad Superman. Early in the film, high on the effects of low-grade...
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Standing in front of a bookcase, feeling baffled.
It would be fair to say that even amongst the librarians here there is a fair amount of amusement— or bewilderment— about the Norman D Stevens archive . Stevens is the retired director of university...
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Why Park Hill Should Live
Reyner Banham liked Park Hill. To the greatest critical champion of New Brutalism, it was ‘the biggest brutalist building ever completed’ an example of all that he had, once at least, held dear. In...
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Parliament in the abstract
Cedric Price, Pop Up Parliament, London, England: Conceptual sketch, 1965 CCA Collection © CCA I quite liked Bernard Porter’s suggestion in the London Review of Books that MPs should be removed from...
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