EDITORIAL
Why the new needs repetition
Repetition need not mean retreating into the familiar. It can give the new the very chance it needs to become more than an announcement.
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Editorial
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EDITORIAL
Form Is No Side Issue
A seating arrangement, a graphic, a living space: our Culture Week reveals how much depends on supposedly superficial matters. Bernd Bartolome on the art of taking questions of form seriously – without declaring every design decision sacrosanct.
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Art needs security to take risks
On the fragility of artists’ lives, the responsibility of institutions and the courage to relinquish certainties.
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Art is not a stockpile
Listening to a work, opening an archive, using data: why we should distinguish more carefully between the things we are entitled to ask of art.
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Against the finished story
Not every gap needs to be filled. On a culture that looks closely without defining people and history once and for all.
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An open door is not an invitation
Publicly funded culture must also be open to those who have to watch every euro. Free admission is a start. But socially inclusive museum policy needs more: reliable access rather than occasional generosity.
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Cultural participation needs influence
Art depicts people; institutions invite them in. But who sets the rules? A case for participation that goes beyond visibility.
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Culture needs more than visibility
What remains after a premiere, an award or a temporary exhibition is decided behind the scenes. That is where cultural policy should look more closely.
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