The changing shape of China’s cultural calendar raises sensitive questions of politics, class and ethnicity that its authorities can only evade, says Temtsel Hao.
Petros Iosifidis outlines the looming challenges to national public service broadcasters in Europe
Identity has emerged as one of the most pressing questions of our time. Travis Jeppesen looks at how the Berlin exhibition, "Angst.Macht.Raum" (Part 1), addressed the global spread of a normative "western" identity through a politics of fear.
A group of anthropologists describe their participant observations on YouTube
After decades of repression, Siberia’s shamans are re-emerging. Ken Hyder is a musician who performs with a Tuvan shaman. His novel describes the culture of contemporary shamanism as it emerges after decades of repression. Part one of three.
The return of psychotherapy to Russia after Stalin’s ban has had to overcome many obstacles, including Russian suspicions of psychological colonialism
Lebanese protestors demand secularism. Thai PM rejects protestors’ offer as counter-movements gain strength. Clashes in south Sudan kill 58. Al-Qaeda confirms death of top leaders. Iran tests new missiles in annual military manoeuvers. All this and more, in today's security update.
A new major exhibition of the man who was England's greatest sculpture ignores, yet borrows from, the controversial re-assessment on the 1980s that Moore was the artist of a labour movement at once mighty but defeated and will be seen as the most awesome witness of human carnage of the First World
HEALTH WARNING This is an article from the Guardian, Friday 26 Aug 1988 (very slightly corrected) published as part of an archive of essays on Henry Moore, including from Art
An archive article published in Art Monthly in November 1986)
This is a review article published in the Time Literary Supplement of 5-11 August 1988
