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Is the Twenty-First Century a Creative Void?
Interesting though dense. The late 20th century had a "profusion" of new cultural ideas but now we are in a period of "creative emptiness". That is bad because an inventive culture benefits us all while kitsch "never asks us to change". But haven't we alr
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Derrick Adams: View Master
The challenge of a mid-career survey is to sum up an artist's trajectory while it is still evolving. A case-in-point is Adams, whose colourful paintings of Black people at leisure convey "Black joy". His figurative works are popular, but what is the endur
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Dissidence for dummies
At Ai Weiwei's first big show in London 15 years ago, he was hailed as an intellectually stimulating conceptual artist. A current show shows how much that reputation has shrunk. The works on display are often huge - a 49m inflatable boat, a three-tonne bl
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The high summer of Finnish art
In the 1890's, Finland was under the sway of Russia. Finnish artists, wanting to resist Russia's ever-closer embrace, were drawn to painting realist images of the Finnish countryside. They variously highlighted the landscape, the lives of poor farming fam
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