Jo Spence and Terry Dennett’s series,
Remodelling Photo History, from 1982. It is such a smart, funny and almost cutting series. I was fortunate to be a part of a small team working on Spence’s first UK retrospective at Studio Voltaire and SPACE in 2012, 20 years after her death. She has been such an important figure in both my professional and personal life. If you are not familiar with her practice, I would urge you to be.
Which cultural experience changed the way you see the world?
I was 15 when Dennis Potter’s
Lipstick on Your Collar appeared on Channel 4 in 1993. It was full of desire, lip-syncing and mundanity. The theme of conflict between the old order and the new post-war generation spoke to my teenage self. This led me to Potter’s other television masterpieces,
On radio, Dante and David Bowie became our unexpected guides through lockdown loneliness
This week, Katya Adler held a modern lens to Dante for Radio 4, while Radio 2 and 6 Music marked five years since the death of David Bowie
Dante s Inferno, The Circle of the Thieves, by William Blake
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Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. Let’s hope that’s not going to be the official motto for 2021.
This year does, however, mark seven centuries since the death of Dante Alighieri, the poet of the Divine Comedy. Radio 4 has chosen to celebrate with a slightly bizarre idea: for
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On January 1 each year a number of works – books, films, music – come out of copyright and enter the public domain. The big one this year – at least as far as the US is concerned – is one of the great novels of the 20th century, F. Scott Fitzgerald s
The Great Gatsby. In the US they term January 1 Public Domain Day.
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First published in 1925,
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This year’s Public Domain Day was pretty exciting. It featured, among other things, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s
The Great Gatsby which was published in 1925 and therefore entered the public domain on January 1. Hemingway’s
In Our Time, John Dos Passos’s
Manhattan Transfer and Edith Wharton’s
This annual injection of new material into the public domain impacts
North Dakota Quarterly as well which produced four issues in 1925 that are now free from any copyright restrictions. This is particularly significant for the
Quarterly because we don’t have individual author agreements dating to those years so have only been able to release the material via rather more restrictive open, but “no derivatives” licenses covering entire volumes. You can check them out here in the Archive.