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12.05.2023 Theage.com.au and 3 sitesLast month, a pair of climate activists attacked a painting known as “The Rokeby Venus, ” by the Spanish master Diego Velázquez, which hangs in London’s National Gallery, using hammers to smash the pr...
12.06.2023 Newyorker.comWhat reading Georges Bataille could teach you about the birth of art—and of humanity. Why should we explore caves and excavate fossils? Why should we seek more information about our origins? And what ...
12.02.2023 Srilankaguardian.org and 1 sitesThis is kind of hilarious. In his strange story “Earth’s Holocaust, ” Nathaniel Hawthorne describes how “this wide world had become so overburdened with an accumulation of worn-out trumpery, that the ...
12.05.2023 Biblioklept.orgWith Australia Day , Stan Grant continues on from his previous book Speaking to my Country , collecting a range of pieces and ideas tied together, addressing land, family, race, history and nation to answer the question: who are we? The book is a mixture of personal memoir and philosophical exploration. The book begins with a reflection upon the act of looking on at Australia from a distance. Grant explores the different between the head and the heart, that is Australia as a great place versus t...
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