Doctor Brené Brown has spent the past 12 years investigating vulnerability, courage, dignity and shame. She will be exploring these themes at a conference in London on the 4th of July. . Brown, whose 2010 speech “The Power of Vulnerability” has had over 8.5 million views on TED.com (an organisation […]
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Against the criticism of art, or why does the shoemaker judge the tailor
“Those who know music create it, those who know less teach it, those who know less still organise it, and those who know nothing criticise it.” Luciano Pavarotti. Macu Gavilán Rumour has it that critics feel a secret, almost sexual pleasure when they find the work they’re analysing contains something […]
How a toilet ended up in a museum alongside a Picasso
Non-criticism to art Since the dawn of Modernity, man, like teenagers with their parents, has sought to swim against the tide of subjects that immediately preceded them. Macu Gavilán Is Faith the most important thing for the medievals? The enlightened say no, it’s Reason. Reason is not the most important, […]
Whatever is true, just, pure… lovely… Think on these things
So wrote an early Jewish Christian writer to the church in the Roman town of Philippi. But what is meant by each of these things? Aren’t they too subjective and culturally-constructed to have any kind of universal meaning? Nigel Pocock Perhaps it is best to start with human commonality. For […]