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When artists don’t try

    Must art be political? On the inherently political content of art.

    Minimalism at a crossroads

      The waning power of minimalist design.

      Scribbles on a canvas

        Why you’re terrified of modern art.

        Art’s absurdity

          Must art be political? On perpetually political symbols.

          Honesty is the best policy

            The undemocratic wages of state secrecy.

            Twenty-first-century gothic

              John Ruskin and the imperfect worker.

              A form and content warning

                Must art be political? On Francisco de Goya’s The Third of May.

                The ragged and the beautiful

                  Must art be political? On the artist’s apolitical delusion.

                  Plato’s platitudes

                    Must art be political? On art and moral purity in today’s world.

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