CBPP exhibition 8- 15 June.

The sublime hubris of Tropical Modernism | Wessie du Toit

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'Will the new forms of architecture inspired by a renewed space age and aiming for the stars remain a largely earthbound phenomenon?'

Wessie du Toit on Space architecture: a moonage daydream?

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This is the test for whether MPs are sane or not. If you genuinely think that sex-offending, acid-throwing scumbag should have been granted asylum, purely because you are worried about appearing mean and anti-immigrant, you should be nowhere near public office.

Jonathan Pie

The culture of authenticity encourages us to express our own unique personality in our own way, rather than adhering to social conventions. But what if conventions are what allow us to be expressive? My latest from the Pathos of Things:

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I am at a loss for words. My heart is heavy, my mind is spinning, and my soul is shattered. How can this be happening? How can we live in a world where justice and safety for victims are pushed aside for the sake of political correctness? Where a man who committed a heinous…

Discussion of Britain's housing crisis has become fixated on the absurdities of the planning system. But reform will backfire if we don't also address the terrible quality of new houses, and the deeper sources of Nimbyism. My new piece for UnHerd:
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For a long time I've been perversely fascinated by shipping containers. The 40ft steel box is the ultimate anonymous industrial artefact, embodying the simplest economic principles. And yet, it transformed the world.
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I was there when Mugabe went on his destructive rampage against us whites and took our farms, destroying the economy and forever altering the trajectory of Zimbabwe.

I was there to watch 'Operation Murambatsvina,' where Mugabe bulldozed the homes of 1000s of black Zimbabweans,…

First newsletter of 2024: Why Do Some Things Last?

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This was the most insane stage of the pandemic.

How house plants reflect the frustrations of millennial life. From today's Pathos of Things newsletter:

The art critic John Berger once wrote that men in paintings act, women appear: 'Men look at women whereas women watch themselves being looked at.' And so it is with Harold Knight's prosaically titled 'Woman Reading,' from 1932.

Had the worst flat white at #Pret Reading Oracle today. Not serious in the greater scheme of things but very annoying as you expect better

Today at The Pathos of Things, I'm considering an overlooked aspect of a potential US-China conflict: the impact on our culture.

Globalisation turned mass consumption into a way of life.

Very much looking forward to showing these two paintings at the #russellgallery #wintershow which opens on Friday (private view this Thursday 30th Nov) #londonexhibitions #hammersmithbridge #riverthames

Britain's global brand, comprised of Harry Potter, Richard Curtis and the royal family, is often described as a success story. But it is transforming central London into something that resembles a themed retail park more than a city.

From my latest Pathos of Things newsletter:

Interior, sw13 #oilpainting #interiorart

This week's newsletter is MORE WARBURG: applying the ideas of Aby Warburg's remarkable work of art history, the Memory Atlas, to the ephemeral world of mass culture.
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