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Vision – Det är brunt. När konstnärerna 1904 med Carl Larsson i spetsen gjorde uppror mot Konstakademin var det mot dess brunsåsiga måleri. Det här är en renässans för brunsåsmåleriet, säger Roj Friberg med ett stillsamt skratt.

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Delar av svensk press och bloggosfär drabbas av dåndimpen, nu är DET FRIA ORDET I FARA. Nu måste bråtesamlarens teckning [..] publiceras igen för att markera för amerikanska hemmafruar och guinnessörplande irländare att dom minsann inte kommer någonstans med att hota oss; vi älskar vår yttrandefrihet så mycket att vi ställer upp för vår yxbäranade Jack Nicholsson -kopia och vevar hans fula teckning i tryckpressen ett varv till

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I made a passing reference, yesterday, to John Berger’s TV series Ways of Seeing, and how the rightward swing of British art critic Peter Fuller could be mapped in the transition from his 1980 book “Seeing Berger” to his 1988 revision of it, entitled “Seeing Through Berger”. I linked to a short piece I’d written last year about Ways of Seeing. The YouTube embeds from the series were dead, but they were pretty short anyway. A YouTube search yesterday revealed that — just in the last month — all four half-hour episodes of Ways of Seeing have gone up online. I watched them last night, and I think this is still the most intelligent glance television — a medium, ostensibly, about looking, but actually very bad at looking intelligently at looking — has ever cast on the act of looking.

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Stuckism – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Stuckism is an international art movement that was founded in 1999 by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson to promote figurative painting in opposition to conceptual art.^[1] The first group of thirteen British artists has since expanded, as of October 2009, to 202 groups in 48 countries

When Theresa Duncan, 40, took her own life on July 10, followed a week later by her boyfriend, Jeremy Blake, 35, their friends were stunned and the press was fascinated: what had destroyed this glamorous couple, stars of New York’s multi-media art world, still madly in love after 12 years?

The Golden Suicides – Vanity Fair
Gyllene Självmnord – Fredrik Strage – DN PåStan

Jeremy Blake and Theresa Duncan, who shared an uncommonly close bond.