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Dick French: On The Town – May 2020

Dick French May/June 2020 It’s interesting to
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read the letters of John Ruskin alongside those of Vincent van Gogh.

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of trousers? It was all the

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Laura Gascoigne: The Experience Economy – January 2019

Laura Gascoigne January/February

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languages,” cooed the catalogue, “the language of gold remains universal”. To prove it, the auction house promised to take collectors “on a journey through the

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this when seeing Wafic Saïd, a contributor to

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Laura Gascoigne: Redrawing Drawing – July 2019

Laura Gascoigne July/August

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is going on? When
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Laura Gascoigne: Is Art (Finally) Toast? – May 2019

Laura Gascoigne May/June 2019 In 2014 the

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Harvard-based science magazine Annals of Improbable Research presented its Ig Nobel prize

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year’s Ig Nobel prize for economics went to the Italian government for […]

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