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How the poetically-charged art of Tacita Dean gives its audience a moment for stillness and time

The first time I saw one of Tacita Dean’s monumental film-works it was by chance.

The Conversation

Harp: Albion review – former Midlake frontman traipses through twilight

Tim Smith’s first album with Kathi Zung takes inspiration from William Blake and the Cure to create a landscape of 80s reverb and ghostly vocals

The Guardian - UK

John Craxton: A Modern Odyssey review – the wandering painter who blossomed in the light

From a dank flatshare with Lucian Freud to the dazzling sun of Crete, the British neo-Romantic blossoms before your very eyes in this irresistible show

The Guardian - UK

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Classical home listening: Shostakovich’s 14th Symphony; Riot Ensemble’s Vestige

The BBC Philharmonic under John Storgårds excels in Shostakovich’s intimate penultimate symphony, while new music champions Riot Ensemble explore memory, healing and desire

The Guardian - UK

‘Instant 80s!’: ex-Midlake singer Tim Smith on mixing William Blake with the Cure

The Texan caused shockwaves when he left Midlake. Now he’s back with his new band Harp – and a musical love letter to the British landscape, full of drum machines and mystical poetry

The Guardian - UK

Chris Ofili: Requiem review – Grenfell Tower as a burning cage in an ocean of despair

The artist’s dramatic site-specific work, partly a memorial to artist Khadija Saye, who died in the fire, is like a transition between life and death or grief and acceptance

The Guardian - UK

Spotlight on Reynolds review – superficial portraits by a well-connected hack

One of his paintings recently sold for £50m – but William Blake was right when he said Reynolds ‘depressed art’, as this show demonstrates all too well

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Hell on earth – how a place of torture has haunted us culturally over time

From Bosch to Dante to Sartre, and from Hell’s Angels to Hell’s Kitchen to Hellraiser, visions of the infernal location and condition still resonate

The Guardian - UK

The big idea: do we need to dismantle the literary canon?

The temptation to chuck out the old is strong, but can only be part of the answer

The Guardian - UK

Critical Letters Are True Friendship

In reading for my festschrift essay for John Witte ("The Influence of the Catholic Intellectual Tradition on the Common Law"), I ran across this fascinating paragraph by Anthony Grafton on how Johannes Kepler didn't publish a monograph on chronology (i.e., the study of historical dates) but instead developed his scholarship…

Reason

Mister, Mister by Guy Gunaratne review – a terror suspect’s story

From childhood in London to radicalist notoriety to global wanderings, this fragmentary memoir of a ‘Pound Shop prophet’ is thrillingly ambitious

The Guardian - UK

London’s Primrose Hill to close gates at night after row that divided locals

Covid disruption prompted lobbying for limits on opening of green space famed for its sweeping views of city

The Guardian - UK

10 clever ways to style up your home office

A summertime work space sets the tone for bright ideas, says Sam Wylie-Harris.

The Independent UK

The week in theatre: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead; Accidental Death of an Anarchist; Berlusconi – review

Complicité’s masterly take on Olga Tokarczuk’s eco-thriller is unforgettable; Daniel Rigby excels in Fo’s all too timely classic; and Silvio Berlusconi is in dire need of some good tunes

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Daylight rubbery: the cemetery stalker who turns celebrity gravestones into art

Amy Winehouse, James Dean, Nikita Khrushchev … Scott Covert takes rubbings at big names’ graves, often getting chased away. ‘It breaks my heart,’ he says, ‘when I hear someone’s been cremated’

The Guardian - UK

Mud, murder and homemade schnapps: eco-thriller Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead roars back

As Complicité’s Simon McBurney brings Olga Tokarczuk’s feminist detective story to the stage, the pair discuss its eccentric sleuth, isolated landscape and climate alarm

The Guardian - UK

Kamala Ibrahim Ishag review – memory maps and rumours of djinns from mystical Sudanese painter

Inspired by William Blake and Francis Bacon, Ishag traces winding webs of families and friendships with depictions of plants, neighbourhoods and – her main subject – women

The Guardian - UK

Anti-empire, anti-fascist, pro-suffragist: the stunning secret life of Proms staple Jerusalem

Why is Jerusalem lumped in with the jingoism of Last Night of the Proms? William Blake wrote a heretical, anti-establishment anthem that was later gifted to the suffragists and used to rouse fighters in the Spanish civil war

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The Conversation

Scientists have traced Earth's path through the galaxy via tiny crystals found in the crust

“To see a world in a grain of sand”, the opening sentence of the poem by William Blake, is an oft-used phrase that also captures some of what geologists do.

The Conversation

Drought: five ways to stop heavy rains washing away parched soil

When William Blake described England’s “green and pleasant land” in his poem Jerusalem, he was actually writing during a prolonged drought. Two centuries later, much of Europe is withering under successive heatwaves amid one of the most extreme droughts ever recorded.

The Independent UK

Commonwealth Games 2022: Why do English athletes sing ‘Jerusalem’ and not ‘God Save The Queen’?

Team England will not sing the UK's national anthem in Birmingham

Newsroom.co.nz

All the rest were men

A memoir of drinkies with 1960s literary men

The Guardian - UK

Radical Landscapes review – ‘Is loving green fields really wicked?’

It has some fabulous works, from a canal by Constable to a gnarled old tree by Tacita Dean, but this show’s radical v conservative thesis gets caught in the brambles – and the climate section is catastrophic

Evening Standard

Radical, potent and still very funny — Jerusalem is storming the West End

Frequently deemed the best play of the 21st century, Nick Curtis explores the story of Jerusalem as it returns to the West End 13 years after it first opened

Chicago Sun-Times

Why don’t schools ban the Bible?

Because it’s all about ginning up imagined harm as an excuse to bully somebody.

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