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The Hybrid Guitar Styles of Andy SummersHunched over a Wes Montgomery vinyl, a young Andy Summers learnt how to play jazz in the only way that was available to him. Today music…Dec 5, 2024Dec 5, 2024
Dog and Spider: two sides of contemporary art in two massive sculpturesThe Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, the industrious heart of the Biscay region in Spain’s Basque Country, is a funny building. It appeared…Nov 19, 2024Nov 19, 2024
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A reappraisal of soup-throwingWhy annoying climate protests have a point — for nowSep 30, 2024Sep 30, 2024
Challenges to collective survivalNo species has collaborated so much, or needed to collaborate so much, as humans. Every society, whether technocratic or pastoral, relies…Sep 21, 2024Sep 21, 2024
The British press are losing their mind over the Oasis reunion — here are some better British…Sep 2, 2024Sep 2, 2024
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