A still from Ragnar Kjartansson s 2018 video Figures in Landscape (Friday), which will be offered at auction by Christie s on 25 March in support of the Healing Arts campaign
The World Health Organization and a coalition of cultural partners will next week launch a “call to action” to galvanise the arts in countering the mental health crisis of isolation, anxiety and bereavement caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Known as Healing Arts 2021, the global campaign kicks off with a week of virtual talks and events on 22-26 March in collaboration with University College London, Tate galleries, Italy’s Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, the UK’s newly formed National Centre for Creative Health, the Hospital Rooms charity and the Saudi philanthropic foundation Community Jameel.
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Fergal Kinney
, March 1st, 2021 09:31
On the 20th anniversary of their one and only studio album, Any Other City,
Fergal Kinney speaks to Life Without Buildings about their short productive life and their incredibly long tail
In pop music, and the cottage industry set up to auto-mythologise it, there’s little premium higher than the small coterie of bands whose skimpy discographies are inverse to their XXL influence – Sex Pistols, Joy Division, Young Marble Giants, Slint, Television. You’ll notice that all of the above are indie or alternative acts. Unless from early death, you’ll find little of this mythologising in soul or in jazz. What can we learn from this? The early split being the logical end point of indie s cult of detachment?