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...America gave him scale, scope, abstract inventiveness, and, although inevitably he had considered what it meant to be a black artist before — “I want to paint my people, that is black people”, he told John Berger...
...Then there’s John Berger, Samuel Beckett and John Lennon. It’s a funny mixed bag, a bit like who would you invite to dinner....
...Ms Berger responded to the Williamson video by saying: “This is what I have left behind. It’s toxic. Our country deserves so much better.”...
...Belonging to the seminal generation of scholars including John Berger and TJ Clark who in the 1960s set out to square art — luxury product, privileged pursuit — with political engagement, Nochlin helped...
...So why did Berger mention that many of the messages had the hashtag “JC4PM” [Jeremy Corbyn for prime minister]?...
...Jackie Walker, a former vice-chair of Momentum, the pro-Corbyn group, was suspended from Labour for accusing Jews of controlling the transatlantic slave trade....
...Portraits: John Berger on Artists, by John Berger, edited by Tom Overton, Verso, RRP£25/RRP$44.95 Essays spanning 30,000 years of art history by a writer who uniquely combines critical acuity and imaginative...
...Jackie Wullschlager is the FT’s chief visual arts critic Photographs: Erich Lessing/AKG-Images; Ulf Andersen/Getty Images...
...Additional reporting by Jackie Cai...
...Clive Cookson Art Portraits: John Berger on Artists, by John Berger, edited by Tom Overton, Verso, RRP£25/RRP$44.95 Essays spanning 30,000 years of art history by a writer who uniquely combines critical...
...Sir, Jackie Wullschlager’s article on John Berger and Ways of Seeing was characteristically insightful but I think she meant to say that Magritte turned the cannon on the canon....
...Ways of Seeing: John Berger on the Small Screen, April 3-17 at BFI Southbank www.bfi.org.uk/southbank Jackie Wullschlager on Degas …………………………………………………………….....
...The Cyprès bottle green candle she created, with its woody smell and silver snuffer cap, would later be used by Jackie Kennedy to fragrance the White House....
...Hattie the Bad By Jane Devlin and Joe Berger Puffin £5.99, 32 pages Hattie is not bad in a wimpy “forgot-to-tidy-her-room” kind of way. No, she’s “really, really bad”....
...Berger offers a few possible survival routes and shows why not absolutely everything is going to be made in China from now on....
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