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Modernism Around The World
Murals which aimed to synthesise the history and culture of Mexico, Japanese novels exploring urban alienation, an exhibition of Bauhaus paintings fr…
3 years, 11 months ago
Paper
From paper bullets to Tibetan rituals, early printing presses to present day recycling: Laurence Scott explores the cultural and social history of pa…
3 years, 11 months ago
How To Make A Modernist Masterpiece
A "house on chicken legs” in Moscow designed by Viktor Andreyev, Virginia Woolf’s novel Jacob’s Room first published on 26 October 1922, Coal Cart Bl…
3 years, 11 months ago
Asta Nielsen
Censored by the US, Europe's greatest early film star played leading roles in love triangle melodramas, comedies, stories of women trapped by tragic …
3 years, 11 months ago
Yishai Sarid; marking Holocaust Memorial Day 2022
A tour guide at Polish holocaust sites is at the centre of a new novel by Yishai Sarid. The author talks to Anne McElvoy about his own trips to Polan…
3 years, 11 months ago
New Thinking: Diverse Classical Music
Widening the repertoire of classical music comes under the spotlight in today's Free Thinking conversation as New Generation Thinker Christienna Frya…
3 years, 11 months ago
Touki Bouki
A motorbike adorned with a zebu skull is one of the central images of Djibril Diop Mambéty's classic 1973 film, whose title translates as The Journey…
3 years, 11 months ago
New Thinking: Mental Health Research
Drama and gaming are being used in a pair of projects exploring adolescent mental health. Dr Daisy Fancourt finds out why this meeting of the arts an…
3 years, 11 months ago
Writing Love: Sarah Hall, Monica Ali, Adam Mars-Jones
Love during a lockdown is at the centre of Sarah Hall's latest book Burntcoat. Monica Ali's new novel is called Love Marriage and looks at love acros…
3 years, 11 months ago
Altered States
From Aldous Huxley to cat pictures by Louis Wain: altered states of consciousness can be induced by taking drugs, but they also include dreams, tired…
4 years ago