![]() ![]() ,University City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Donations and Loans from the ZKM CollectionĪmazing! Clever! Linguistic! An Adventure in Conceptual Art The Weak Sex – How Art Pictures the New Male Sigmund Freud: Play on the Burden of Representation Installation or Object? Works from the MOCAK Collection ,MOCAK, Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow ,Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y León Manuel Bonik - Undine Goldberg: 01 No5 Revisited Sound & Book: Acoustic Thought in the Arts Poetics of Change: Works from the collection ![]() ,MUMOK, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Specular Windows: Reflections on the Self and the Wider WorldĬonstruction_Reflection: Works from the Collection Gertraud & Dieter Bogner at mumok Stephan Reusse: Das kleine miteinander, füreinander oder eben garnichts ,Neue Galerie Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum Too much is not enough! The Donation "Artelier Collection" Little and Large Editions invited by Klosterfelde Edition Two Faces: Video portraits from the Generali Foundation Collection The City as a Data Field: On the Digital Future of Graz The Third Woman: Actionism, Performance, and Attitudes Street Life: Die Straße in der Kunst von Kirchner bis Streuli ,Kunsthaus Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum ,Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Petrovka Street ,National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea, Seoul ![]()
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![]() ![]() In many ways – not least the questions of political and social responsibility it poses, especially in the face of global catastrophe – it is a darker work, and yet a more fruitfully puzzling, multifaceted one. Where the suffering and hopelessness of A Little Life created an overwhelming experience that left readers divided around the issue of how much they could take, this is a far subtler delineation of those who feel hamstrung, beleaguered, inadequate to the task ahead. The novel’s title invokes a feeling of expectant adventuring, of happiness waiting somewhere what, perhaps, nation-builders might feel just as strongly as individuals at the beginning of their lives. In some ways, this is a work whose fascination with entropy – the breakdown of societies, of property, of the body – makes its job almost impossibly hard we feel as though we are standing in the centre of ever-decreasing circles. each section conjures a vivid, often startlingly reconfigured America. There are few surface resemblances between A Little Life, Yanagihara’s Booker-shortlisted second novel, and To Paradise, but in both she is deeply, compulsively interested in characters for whom the world seems unattainable, whose histories and temperaments coalesce to render them marginal, held back. intricately assembled themes and intensely anxious preoccupations. ![]() ![]() * The two unlikely lovers are thrown together in a cold Scottish castle by the reading of a last will and testament. Although Catriona fights the command of the Lady, all she gets for her efforts is a headache. Richard is definitely not the mild-mannered man Catriona had in mind, and even worse, he's English. The Lady firmly tells Catriona that the man who shall father her children is none other than Richard Cynster, better known throughout the land as "Scandal". ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, the spirit of the earth that protects the manor and its valley, the Lady of the Vale, has other plans. Beautiful Scotswoman Catriona Hennessy knows that she must eventually marry and so decides that she requires a mild-mannered, biddable husband, a man who will agree to father a daughter to inherit Casphairn Manor and who will leave her free to manage her holdings without interference. ![]() ![]() The opening sentences of this powerful, often brutal love story are deceptively beautiful: “Dorrigo Evans’s earliest memories were of sun flooding a church hall in which he sat with his mother and grandmother.” His eyes were only for the ball, but he sensed he would not make it running at the speed he was, and so he leapt, his feet finding the back of one boy, his knees the shoulders of another and so he climbed into the full dazzle of the sun, his arms stretched out high above him, he felt the ball arrive in his hands, and he knew he could now begin to fall out of the sun.” He understood the ball dangling from the sun was his and all he had to do was rise. “Time slowed, he found all the space he needed in the crowding spot into which the biggest, strongest boys were now rushing. Evans, who is based on the Australian surgeon Edward “Weary” Dunlop (1907-93), endures into old age, and, for all the success and subsequent honours he gathers, this loneliest of men never again recaptures the glory he experienced in the school yard when playing with the bigger boys. ![]() ![]() ![]() Chance often seems to favour Dorrigo Evans, the remote central character of the Tasmanian writer Richard Flanagan’s Homeric sixth novel, an epic about life and death and the grim burden of survival. ![]() ![]() The couple are racked with guilt, and as the investigation continues, more and more secrets are reveled.Īs you begin solving the mystery, along comes the plot twist which will leave your jaw on the floor. It begins with the disappearance of Marco and Anne’s baby daughter Cora, who is taken from her bed one night whilst the couple attend a dinner party next door. ‘The Couple Next Door’ grasped my attention right from the very beginning. She has a way of embedding you into these characters lives and almost feeling like you’re there. ![]() ![]() If you have read any of Shari Lapena’s books you will know that no one does suspense quiet like her. The Couple next door was the most talked about thriller in 2016 and rightly so! This book is always the first on my list to recommend anyone to read, I could not put it down. What would you be capable of, when pushed past your limit? But now they’re in your home, and who knows what they’ll find there. You’ve never had to call the police before. But now, as you race up the stairs in your deathly quiet house, your worst fears are realized. Your daughter was sleeping when you checked on her last. You’ll have the baby monitor and you’ll take it in turns to go back every half-hour. Nothing personal, she just couldn’t stand her crying. Your neighbour told you that she didn’t want your six-month-old daughter at the dinner party. ![]() You never know what’s happening on the other side of the wall. ![]() |