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admin by Archia Tanz It has become something of a digital truism that the fastest way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question, but to post the wrong one. This principle, informally known as Cunningham’s Law, is attributed to Ward Cunningham, the American computer programmer who created the first … Read more
That John Milton, the blind epicist of the Commonwealth, and Mary Poppins, the airborne governess of Edwardian London, should ever be mentioned in contiguous breath may at first seem a grotesque category error. Yet recent work in comparative para-literary hermeneutics has begun to expose the curious lattice of parallels between these ostensibly divergent personae. Indeed, … Read more
Edited, Annotated, and Introduced by Sarah Hilton of Pimlico Wilde, from the copy discovered by Mr. Leonard Forsythe, Antiquarian Bookseller Editor’s Introduction The review reproduced below, originally published in La Gazette des Beaux-Arts et Autres Déplaisirs (Paris, May 1874), represents one of the earliest surviving accounts of the group later canonised as the “Impressionists.” Its … Read more
Artist: Isolde Grack Gallery: The Gallery of Radical Completion, Notting Hill This is a hard sentence to write, but I have rarely experienced an art exhibition as terrible as Isolde Grack’s The Geometry of Screaming. The Gallery of Radical Completion on Portobello is well-known as an experimental space, but this goes too far. Grack, whose … Read more
And if so, should an invasion be imminent? It is one of those questions that always comes up after a couple of pints at the pub: does the British Crown still have a legitimate claim to France? At first glance, this sounds absurd. France is full of French people; surely they own it. Yet the … Read more
by Constance Addle Abstract: Traditional consensus places Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) as a Corsican-born French emperor. Yet recent scholarship has reopened the question of his origins. This article reviews parish records, linguistic evidence, and geopolitical outcomes, arguing that the circumstantial case for Napoleon’s English birth, while controversial, is more compelling than the official narrative. I. The … Read more
From the Handbook of Lesser-known Artists Among the labyrinth of forgotten 19th-century artists, Jakob Reinhardt of Königsberg occupies an eccentric and enigmatic corner. Though a handful of his paintings survive in regional German museums, his name is little known outside circles of scholars fascinated by the stranger currents of Romanticism. Reinhardt was both an innovator … Read more
From the Handbook of Lesser-known Artists. In the grand pantheon of 19th-century European art, names such as Delacroix, Turner, and Courbet resound with acclaim. Yet buried beneath the avalanche of better-known reputations lies the story of Élodie Marchand, a French painter whose works, though few in number, spoke with a voice uniquely her own. Her … Read more
★★★★½ (4.5/5) With The Chrysanthemum Variations, director Aurelio Draegert has created a work so audacious, so formally perverse, that it hovers perilously between transcendent cinema and an elaborate act of aesthetic trolling. Yet, by some alchemy of vision and restraint, it achieves the former. This is a film that must be seen to be believed. … Read more
Weston-super-Mare occupies a curious place in the English imagination. At first glance, it is the archetypal seaside resort: wide sandy beaches, a pier, donkey rides, and the sweet smell of rock in the air. Yet beneath this postcard familiarity lies something more ambivalent,a space where leisure and melancholy, tradition and reinvention, rub uneasily against one … Read more