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Comment: 3 July 2025

2 July 2025
This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote: A classic is a work which relegates the noise of the present to a background hum, without which at the same time the classics cannot exist Italo Calvino Upcoming at The Arts [… more]
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Comment: 26 June 2025

30 June 2025
This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote: Sometimes you have to hug people you really don’t like. That way you’ll know how big to dig the hole in the back garden Anon [credit welcome] SB17 curators Sharjah Art Foundationhas named Angela [… more]
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Comment: 19 June 2025

19 June 2025
This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote: Do not topple their idols in anger: pulverize them in play Marquis de Sade DDW 2025 Open Call Dubai Design Week runs 4–9 November at d3, and an open call has just been announced [… more]
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Comment: 12 June 2025

11 June 2025
This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote: If a book is tedious to you, don’t read it; that book was not written for you Jorge Luis Borges Join the club Karama Arts Club has finally got its licence to operate as [… more]
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Comment: 5 June 2025

4 June 2025
This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote: I’m sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It’s just been too intelligent to come here Arthur C Clarke Eid note 1 It’s Eid ad Adha, and we can all celebrate by [… more]
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Comment: 29 May 2025

28 May 2025
This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all [… more]
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Comment: 22 May 2025

21 May 2025
This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote It is important to use your hands. That is what distinguishes you from a cow or a computer operator Paul Rand Art Basel Gulf Looks like the rumoured $20m deal for Art [… more]