Art in Meta

The Great War was the great rupture in reality. New ways of writing came out of that period that broke all the rules from writers who strove to find new ways of communicating what felt like a fractured reality

The idea arose, like most brilliant masterstrokes, from a mishmash of source material.

“One can understand that at this time preoccupations are elsewhere,” begins a pamphlet circulated around Paris in late February, 1848.

art works better as a way of seeing than as a way of showing. The arts can document and sometimes pre-empt changes in how people view the world around them, pointing to multiple perspectives or clashes, deconstructing and reconstructing, taking people up to the cosmic or down to the microscopic. They can do this in compelling ways that reach large

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On a gray Saturday morning in March of 1976, two nattily dressed London sophisticates left the city, driving west toward the decidedly unfashionable environs of rural Gloucestershire. One of the two was Eric Lister, owner of a quirky art gallery called the Portal. The other had a much higher profile. At age 42, Tom Maschler was already something of... See more