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Brian Dillon

Brian Dillon is a writer. His latest book Affinities: On Art and Fascination will be published in spring 2023 by the New York Review of Books and Fitzcarraldo Editions, London. He is working on a book about Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love.

In her prints, paintings, photographs and videos, Andrea Büttner explores poverty, community and her philosophy of 'little works'

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Personal, vexing, intimate and profound: some reflections on Brexit

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‘The photographer was born in Jamaica in 1960 and grew up in Dalston, east London; he was given a Leica camera and taught darkroom techniques by a patron of his local church’

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the Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK

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Claire-Louise Bennett, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Niamh O’Malley: Brian Dillon shares his highlights from 2015

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Brian Dillon considers the 'monstrous homunculi' of Enrico David

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The fate of postwar murals in the UK

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The life and legacy of the wildly inventive choreographer and performer Loie Fuller

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Brian Dillon is a writer and critic, and UK editor of Cabinet magazine. He is the curator of the touring show ‘Curiosity: Art and the Pleasures of Knowing’, which tours to Newlyn & The Exchange, Penzance (25 January – 26 April). A collection of his essays, Objects in This Mirror, was published recently by Sternberg Press.

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On teaching criticism and ‘art writing’

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There is a resurgence of interest in the essay, with collections by Jonathan Lethem, John Jeremiah Sullivan and the first biography of David Foster Wallace all published this year. Is it possible to define a form that stretches from Michel de Montaigne to Wayne Koestenbaum, from Virginia Woolf to Chris Marker? Brian Dillon surveys this enigmatic field, and asks whether this centuries-old tradition might be the genre of the future

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Brian Dillon visits art historian and novelist Marina Warner to talk about the art, books and objects that have shaped her thinking

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The fourth novel from New York-based writer Ben Marcus is a powerful allegory about language

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From the failures of Roland Barthes to the joys of sustained looking, four new publications on photography

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Cork International Airport

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Tate Modern, London, UK

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Memory, exile and cultural heritage in the films of Fiona Tan

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