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Published in: HomeThe Parthenon Marbles and British national identity
Today, the British Museum’s Trustees argue that the Parthenon sculptures are “integral to the Museum’s purpose as a...
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Published in: openIndiaUnsettling art: caste, gender, and dalit expression
Critical issues of domination, discrimination and gender find powerful articulation in the expressionist imagination...
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Published in: HomePower, politics and public monuments in Nairobi, Kenya
For the Kenyan novelist, playwright and essayist, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, power through cultural subjugation was the...
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Published in: openIndiaAesthetics in cartography: a more democratic access to information?
Can atlases serve to empower those at the bottom of the pyramid, permitting an understanding of historical change,...
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Published in: HomePedestrian crossings; contemporary judicial spectacle
Two types of spectacle – procession and tableau vivant – in the Judges Service at London’s Westminster Abbey, allow...
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Published in: openIndiaImagining pasts and futures: the Indian Parliament Murals and South Africa’s Keiskamma Tapestry
The tapestry and the murals are part of the complex and multi-layered ‘archi-texture’ of the parliamentary...
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Published in: HomeOrdinary/Extraordinary: narratives, politics, history
The artpolitics of May Stevens, as ‘the invention of sensible forms and material structures for a life to come’ –...
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Published in: HomeThe aesthetic politics of two decades of techno-movement in France
The political debate around the techno-movement accompanied efforts by the French state to bring raves under state...
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Published in: HomeThe politics of aesthetics: Mussolini and fascist Italy
For politics not to be a dirty word that reflected the failing political class’s capacity for endless debates and...