Tag: art
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Wieħed — the horse has always known more than the rider
Long before it was cast in bronze and made to carry emperors, the horse was already present in art as force, movement, and instinct. From the caves to the triumphal squares of Europe, it has endured as one of the most charged figures in visual culture. But something happens when the horse enters the monumental…
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Adult Entertainment (ars gratia artis)
The MADC has just ended a run of Elaine May’s Adult Entertainment – a play that centres around a group of porn actors and their efforts to write their own scripts. Porn was never an easy subject to broach, particularly in a community where the words “tightly-knit”, “gossip” and “moral indignation” stick out like ugly sores…
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Din l-art ħelwa
Donnhom jagħmluha bi ħsieb. Tasal elezzjoni u jzeffnu l-art fin-nofs. Tkun se toqrob elezzjoni u min forsi ikun xi ftit marid b’dik il-fissazzjoni dwar valuri, ideat u politika ta’ prinċipji isib ruħu imdawwar bi kronaka kriminali, psewdo-kriminali u allegazzjonijiet ta’ attivitajiet korrotti. Ħa ngħiduha kif inhi – il-politika imkien ma hi abjad fuq iswed. Ma…
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Fighting the law and winning – Censorship
University Rector Juanito Camilleri has indicated that he would not have reported an undergraduate to police for publishing an explicit story in a student newspaper had the law been clearer, though he sees no reason to apologise. Now that’s interesting. Here is the rector: “Whether it is a fictional story or not is beside the point…
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Gallery Pi goes Yerbury
Bertu of Bertoons for J’accuse has sent in a promo blurb for this exhibition that is runnning at Rupert Cefai’s Gallery Pi between the 14th and 24th October. J’accuse dutifully passes on the information to its readers – do go check out Rupert’s little corner of Valletta in Archbishop Street. “Naked ruins exclusive at Gallery…
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imagine 18 revisited
And this is where I continue from yesterday’s post. As I was saying (at some point) my biggest worry in this kind of events is that the “culture” crowd gets a little toy and keeps it to itself for a few events that would be deemed “arty-farty”. I am sure that this is not my…