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From Spectator LifeKeith Jarrett’s accidental masterpiece
From Spectator LifeShortly before midnight on the evening of Friday 24 January 1975, at Cologne Opera House on the banks of the Rhine, a wiry 29-year-old from Pennsylvania walked onto the stage in front of a crowd of 1,400 people and began to play the piano, alone. The 50th anniversary of what followed is being celebrated with
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Industrial tragedy
The death of British manufacturing
Unmade in Britain: we’re becoming a zero-industrial society
The French sociologist Alain Touraine coined the term ‘post-industrial society’ in 1969. By the 1980s it had become shorthand for the kind of services-based, individualistic economies most major developed nations had created. Today, the UK is moving its economy beyond that. We are creating what might be called a ‘zero-industrial society’. Climate change targets, soaring
Unmade in Britain: we’re becoming a zero-industrial society
The French sociologist Alain Touraine coined the term ‘post-industrial society’ in 1969. By the 1980s it had become shorthand for the kind of services-based, individualistic economies most major developed nations had created. Today, the UK is moving its economy beyond that. We are creating what might be called a ‘zero-industrial society’. Climate change targets, soaring
Culture
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Like lying down in front of a bulldozer: the Jesus Lizard, at the Electric Ballroom, reviewed
From the magazineMany indie types from the 1980s and 1990s were secretly metal fans. But it’s not something they ever really wanted to admit to in public. They’d talk a good game about the Stooges and the Velvet Underground but back home – as was the case with Leeds’s goth overlord Andrew Eldritch, of the Sisters of
It’s no Citizen Kane: The Brutalist reviewed
From the magazinePious bilge: Kyoto, at @sohoplace, reviewed
From the magazineWas Brazil the real birthplace of modernism?
From the magazineVisual ingenuity and wit: Monument Valley 3 reviewed
From the magazineCertainly intriguing: Apple TV+’s Prime Target reviewed
From the magazineIt’s moving to think how happy Van Gogh was in Brixton
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‘‘On the bright side, we can be victims again.’’
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‘‘Death, War – meet Artificial Intelligence.’’
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