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Contemporary Korean art is still very much a product of its past (opens the original)
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On the fifth day of the eighth lunar month of AD527, Buddhist monk Ichadon faced the execution he had himself engineered. The man he advised, Beopheung, ruler of Silla, one of the three kingdoms of Korea, had been grappling with a thorny problem: he was determined to make Buddhism the state religion, but his council of nobles opposed him. Ichadon came up with an extraordinary solution: the king would make the proclamation, then deny all knowledge of it. The monk would then admit to having forged
'The lowliest material on the earth — mud — becomes something beautiful, valuable and unique': Will Gompertz on the 'incredible alchemy' of pottery (opens the original)
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Pottery fascinates Will Gompertz, the director of the Sir John Soane’s Museum in London. ‘What is so extraordinarily moving about it is that we’re taking the lowliest material on the earth — mud — and, through human ingenuity and creativity and sensitivity, creating something beautiful, valuable and unique. It is the most incredible piece of alchemy, really.’ He paraphrases German philosopher and culture critic Walter Benjamin, who, in his essay on the mechanical reproduction of artworks, sugges
The Plaza review: Gilded Age opulence beloved by Fitzgerald, The Beatles and a lion called Goldfleck (opens the original)
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On February 7, 1964, mass hysteria gripped New York. The Beatles had landed and their American fans couldn’t get enough of them. When the band arrived at their hotel, The Plaza, A Fairmont Hotel, on the south-eastern corner of Central Park, some 50 policemen had to be posted outside to keep the crowds in check. The following days brought more chaos and rumour has it that the exasperated hotel management banned The Beatles from ever staying there again. If so, it was a greater loss for the band t
Five centuries of the dog collar, from wolf-proof necessity to aristocratic accoutrement (opens the original)
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Pity the dogs of the Middle Ages, for their collars could be distinctly uncomfortable. Although some hunting images show hounds wearing leather bands, in others, says Ciara Farrell of the Royal Kennel Club (RKC), they sported formidable, broad, iron collars fitted with spikes, which were intended to protect their necks from wolves and bears and would later be echoed in the models with sharp protruding teeth at the top and bottom rim used for animal baiting. Rather more stylish, although probably
'Yes, it was awful, but there was also so much love': Francis Bacon and George Dyer at the Edinburgh Fringe (opens the original)
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When Francis Bacon’s grand retrospective opened at the Grand Palais, in Paris, France, on October 26, 1971, his lover George Dyer had been dead two days, lost to a lethal cocktail of drinks and pills. The artist attended the inauguration anyway, a decision that many viewed as callous and which cemented his reputation, at least among Dyer’s friends, as the blackguard in the couple’s tempestuous relationship. ‘I don’t believe he was a villain,’ counters Alistair Hall, who has written a play on Bac
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