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Jul 4

David Hockney’s Final Show Is a Slow, Sad Walk Through Time

“A Year in Normandie and Some Other Thoughts about Painting” gives us everything important to the artist in one quiet meditation.

David Hockney’s Final Show Is a Slow, Sad Walk Through Time

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Art+London

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Owen Schaefer

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Jul 3

The Peaks and Troughs of “Genuine Fake Premium Economy”

The Institute of Contemporary Arts brings us three artists exploring a clever but dated financial theme

The Peaks and Troughs of “Genuine Fake Premium Economy”

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Art+London

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Owen Schaefer

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Jun 25

Tracey Emin’s ‘Second Life’ Returns her to her First Principles

The Tate Modern show gives us the artist we were always meant to see

Tracey Emin’s ‘Second Life’ Returns her to her First Principles

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A-Culturated

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Owen Schaefer

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Apr 6

Food Should Be More than Fuel

Sometimes the best part of travel is on your plate

Okonomiyaki frying on a hotplate.

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Counter Arts

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Owen Schaefer

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Dec 3, 2025

Turner and Constable — The Painting Rivalry that Changed Art

Tate Britain’s new exhibition reveals two wildly different artists who spurred one another toward greatness, with just a little drama…

Press Image of John Constable’s painting, The White Horse, 1819. © The Frick Collection, New York. Photo: Joseph Coscia Jr.

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Counter Arts

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Sep 16, 2025

‘The Hot Spot’ is the Japanese Comedy-Drama We Need

Bakarhythm’s script mixes the humdrum and the absurd in a hilarious and maybe even quietly subversive story

Ichikawa Mikako as Kiyomi Endō in The Hot Spot.

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Age of Empathy

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Owen Schaefer

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Jun 4, 2025

Community and the Apocalypse

Why prep for the wilderness when your neighbours could loan you some toilet paper?

A leaf hangs on an empty toilet roll.

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A-Culturated

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Owen Schaefer

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May 21, 2025

The Arboreal Trolls of Sycamore Gap

We may never know why they cut down the Sycamore Gap tree, but we know they did it with a smirk

A large tree in a gap between hills at dawn

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Counter Arts

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Owen Schaefer

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Apr 18, 2025

Netflix’s ‘Ranma 1/2’ Revitalises the Original High School Anime

This new adaptation of Rumiko Takahashi’s iconoclastic manga is still hilarious, and surprisingly relevant

Akane faces off with Ranma. Image: Netflix

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A-Culturated

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Owen Schaefer

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Apr 8, 2025

Five Years Ago, Lockdown Made My Street Into a Community

How WhatsApp and worry pulled everyone together and kept it that way

A concrete hedgehog lawn ornament in London, decorated with a blue face mask during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Born in a hollow log and raised by wolves. Writing about the arts, culture, community and the world.

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