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The pernicious influence of prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. You can give prizes justly for long-distance jumps, because you can measure jumps with a foot-rule. No way has been devised for measuring the value of a work of art. History proves that juries in art have been generally wrong. With few exceptions the gr
... See moreRobert Henri • The Art Spirit
In fact, it was workers at Alfred Nobel’s dynamite factories who first noticed that if they were – extremely carefully – stirring the nitro-glycerine mix, their angina went away. Alfred Nobel, who also had angina, refused to take glyceryl tri-nitrate when it was first developed. Maybe he thought he would explode. Which would have buggered up the No
... See moreMalcolm Kendrick • The Clot Thickens
Refraction • Curatorial Governance: An Interview with Tony Lashley
Emma n’était pas seulement l’une des meilleures – réputée mondialement,
Paul Kalanithi • Quand le souffle rejoint le ciel (Essais et documents) (French Edition)
Elinor Ostrom, the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in economics, spent her life working on an economics of collaboration rather than competition.