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              Walter Benjamin

              • Saturday, 11 January, 2025
                FT Magazine
                The last days of Walter Benjamin

                Hounded by the Nazis, the great philosopher took his life in 1940, leaving several mysteries unanswered

                A black-and-white photo of Walter Benjamin seated at a desk in a library, deeply engrossed in reading a book
              • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
                What to see in London during Frieze Week 2024
                Artists Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings: ‘We felt that anything we saw in art history, we could also do’

                The couple’s commission for Art on the Underground is an ambitious mosaic in St James’s Park station

                Two women in an art studio embrace, both seated behind a partially made wooden frame for a canvas painting
              • Saturday, 2 March, 2019
                Jonathan Derbyshire
                Save us from distracted phone zombies

                Chinese city decides to force behavioural changes, rather than just nudge

                Tourist at Shibuya crossing walking and talking by the phone.Photo from Istockalypse 2016
              • Friday, 30 March, 2018
                ​Richard Sennett
                Opportunity will still knock for London after Brexit

                The UK capital has had a good run but now it needs to reimagine itself

                Artwork for FTWeekend Comment - issue dated 30.03.18
              • Friday, 1 December, 2017
                Tristram Hunt
                The real work of art in the age of reproduction

                The digital revolution raises profound questions about authenticity

                A 5.5-meter (20ft) recreation of the 1,800-year-old Arch of Triumph in Palmyra, Syria, is seen at Trafalgar Square in London, Britain April 19, 2016. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth - LR1EC4J10NKHR
              • Wednesday, 4 January, 2017
                ReviewLife & Arts
                Mark Leckey: Containers and Their Drivers, MoMA PS1, New York

                The British artist’s retrospective is a cabinet of curiosities for millennials

                Mark Leckey’s retrospective includes an inflatable Felix the Cat
              • Friday, 26 August, 2016
                ReviewLife & Arts
                The Storyteller by Walter Benjamin review — a thinker who dared to dream

                Known as a philosopher and critic, Walter Benjamin also created a body of fiction that offers a glimpse of his fevered imagination

              • Monday, 28 March, 2016
                ReviewLife & Arts
                Crime Stories: Photography and Foul Play, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York — ‘Troublingly seductive’

                Celebrity outlaws and flashlit murder scenes are drawing the crowds

                'John Dillinger's Feet, Chicago Morgue' (1934, photographer unknown)
              • Tuesday, 15 September, 2015
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                Prometeo, Ruhrtriennale, Kraftzentrale, Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord — review

                Nono’s beguiling 150-minute opera was staged here with almost no distractions from the music

                Luigi Nono's 'Prometeo' at Ruhr Triennale. Photo: Wonge Bergmann
              • Friday, 31 October, 2014
                ReviewLife & Arts
                ‘Radio Benjamin’, by Walter Benjamin

                The German critic was not only a theorist of the media – he was a gifted broadcaster as well

                'Radio Benjamin', by Walter Benjamin book cover
              • Thursday, 15 May, 2014
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                The (early) Lunch Wrap
              • Thursday, 15 May, 2014
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                Paging Walter Benjamin
              • Tuesday, 19 March, 2013
                Life & Arts
                Profile: Luigi Maramotti, Max Mara chairman

                As an exhibition of work by the winner of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women opens in London, Rachel Spence profiles its reclusive patron

                Luigi Maramotti
              • Tuesday, 18 October, 2011
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              • Friday, 19 August, 2011
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                House of Holes

                Ovid meets the Teletubbies in Nicholson Baker’s latest raunchy novel

              • Friday, 18 March, 2011
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              • Friday, 18 December, 2009
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                Sex & Violence, Death & Silence
              • Saturday, 5 December, 2009
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                Trendspotter: Rifling through rubbish
              • Thursday, 16 July, 2009
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                Telling Tales, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
              • Monday, 16 February, 2009
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                Hitler’s Private Library
              • Monday, 2 June, 2008
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                This is the modern world
              • Saturday, 19 January, 2008
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                Beauty in the banal
              • Saturday, 1 December, 2007
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              • Saturday, 13 October, 2007
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                The Angel of History
              • Friday, 26 January, 2007
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