The 1941 picture, a complex interlacing lattice of red, yellow, black and blue adhesive tapes titled New York City I, was first put on display at New York’s MoMA in 1945 but has hung at the art collection of the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Düsseldorf since 1980. The way the picture is currently hung shows the multicoloured lines thickening at the bottom, suggesting an extreme
It is a myth that the ancients only or normally read out loud - a myth we appear to want to believe, since the evidence against it is strong, says James Fenton Were the ancients in the habit of reading silently, or did they normally read out loud? Three weeks ago, discussing certain famous passages in St Augustine's Confessions, I mentioned that St Ambrose's habit of silent reading was clearly uni
Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry in 1997. Photograph: Bernd Muller/RedfernsPerry was born Rainford Hugh Perry in the Hanover parish of north-west Jamaica in 1936, and left school when he was young: “There was nothing to do except field work, so I started playing dominoes and learned to read the minds of others,” he said. He was hired by Clement “Coxsone” Dodd, head of reggae studio and label Studio One, as an
A Japanese village in 1937 is shocked by a gruesome murder – a newlywed couple found shut away in a room “soaked in the crimson of their own blood”, a bloody samurai sword thrust in the snow outside. Scruffy amateur sleuth Kosuke Kindaichi is called in: can he solve the locked-room mystery? Kindaichi, the creation of the revered Japanese detective novelist Seishi Yokomizo, made his first appearanc
The one thing everyone knows – or thinks they know – about Ludwig van Beethoven is that he composed some of music’s greatest masterpieces while completely deaf. Compelling as this sounds, the story has a flaw: it may not be true. According to a leading Beethoven expert, the composer still had hearing in his left ear until shortly before his death in 1827. “This is going to send everybody scurrying
They are the pages where an unwilling messiah Brian, Mr Creosote, the Ministry of Silly Walks, a football team of philosophers and a dead parrot were all born. Now, more than 50 notebooks of original sketches and ideas for Monty Python have been donated to the British Library by Michael Palin. The public will now be able to freely peruse Palin’s archive of writings from 1965 to 1987, including the
Chosen by Jonathan Barnbrook, creator of the sleeves for David Bowie’s Heathen, Reality, The Next Day and Blackstar Richard Hamilton’s sleeve was really radical and ahead of its time and it still looks contemporary. By contrast to Peter Blake’s vivid artwork for the Beatles’ previous album, Sgt Pepper’s, it was a plain white sleeve with the band name just embossed, almost invisible. There was a st
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