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Art & Culture
Arts, culture, media, heritage, creative industries and transformations in representation.
8 published articles
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The Art & Culture section examines artistic practice, media, heritage and the creative industries as economic, social and political forces. It studies the circulation of works and ideas, cultural institutions, production models and the changing representations that shape societies.
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Bob Dylan: The Roads to the Vatican
Nearly thirty years after performing before John Paul II, Bob Dylan has been received by Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican. Behind this encounter between a pontiff and a legend of American music lies a deeper history: that of an artist whose work has been shaped by faith, dissent and t
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Art & CultureHalloween: The Fear We Inherit
From an ancient celebration of the dead to a global entertainment industry, Halloween has survived centuries of religious, geographical, and cultural transformation. Behind the illuminated pumpkins, costumes, and horror films lies a profoundly human question: why do we feel compe
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Art & CultureMetallica: When Rebellion Becomes an Institution
Some music is created to win over an audience. Other music seems, at first, determined to keep the audience at a distance. Metallica belonged to the latter category. Four decades later, the band has become a global institution, its songs cross generational boundaries, and its com
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Art & CultureLouis de Funès: The Genius of French Social Satire
He had the face of anger, the gestures of impatience, and an extraordinary ability to turn the slightest inconvenience into a national emergency.
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Art & CulturePicasso: The Politics of Form
From Cubism to Guernica, how a revolution in visual perception intersected with the ideologies, conflicts, and political transformations of the twentieth century.
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Art & CultureCharlie Chaplin: The Dignity of the Weak
He sleeps in the street, is chased away by policemen, loses his jobs, knows hunger, prison and humiliation. His clothes are either too large or too small, his shoes are worn out, and his fortune sometimes amounts to a handful of coins.
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Art & CultureCharlie Chaplin: Laughter Against the Machine and Power
Two bolts arrive in front of him. Charlie Chaplin tightens them. Two more appear. He tightens those too. The assembly line accelerates.
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Art & CultureFrom Woodstock to Pride: When Counterculture Becomes Culture
In August 1969, a farm in upstate New York became, for a few days, the center of a world that no longer wanted to resemble the one inherited from its parents. Around 400,000 people converged on Woodstock.