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		<title>Frank Holl: Emerging from the Shadows</title>
		<link>http://theibtaurisblog.com/2013/06/18/frank-holl-emerging-from-the-shadows/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Frank Holl]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frank Holl: Emerging from the Shadows represents the first major retrospective in more than 100 years of this eminent Victorian artist. At the 1889 annual Royal Academy Winter Exhibition ‘of works by the old masters and deceased masters of the British school’ at Burlington House, galleries four and five were set aside for a painter &#8230; <span class="more-link"><a href="http://theibtaurisblog.com/2013/06/18/frank-holl-emerging-from-the-shadows/">Continue reading &#187;</a></span><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theibtaurisblog.com&#038;blog=27658467&#038;post=7169&#038;subd=theibtaurisblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Painting of the Week: 73</title>
		<link>http://theibtaurisblog.com/2013/06/14/painting-of-the-week-73/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Painting of the Week]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Abbs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anthony Amies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Landscapes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Norfolk]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anthony Amies (1945-2000), Rain Soaked Field &#8211; Suffolk, 1978, oil on canvas, 76 x 78 cm, The Picker House Collection. When Anthony Amies picked up a paintbrush, it was inevitably to the tune of unsparing, pared down realism, in and around Norfolk and Suffolk’s coastline.  With threat lurking and billowing on the horizon, Amies’ paintings &#8230; <span class="more-link"><a href="http://theibtaurisblog.com/2013/06/14/painting-of-the-week-73/">Continue reading &#187;</a></span><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theibtaurisblog.com&#038;blog=27658467&#038;post=7266&#038;subd=theibtaurisblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cultural Passions: Reading the Tarot</title>
		<link>http://theibtaurisblog.com/2013/06/12/cultural-passions-reading-the-tarot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 07:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Wilson]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tarot]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tarot reading is a culturally marginalised activity,  yet it is an experience that still attracts educated secular intellectuals. So what&#8217;s the appeal? Madam Sosotris, famous clairvoyante Had a bad cold, nevertheless Is known to be the wisest woman in Europe With a wicked pack of cards. T. S. Eliot During a brief hippy period, a friend &#8230; <span class="more-link"><a href="http://theibtaurisblog.com/2013/06/12/cultural-passions-reading-the-tarot/">Continue reading &#187;</a></span><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theibtaurisblog.com&#038;blog=27658467&#038;post=7190&#038;subd=theibtaurisblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Khatami: Iran&#8217;s Eternal Candidate</title>
		<link>http://theibtaurisblog.com/2013/06/11/khatami-irans-eternal-candidate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 07:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Ghoncheh Tazmini]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mohammad Khatami decided not to run for President at this year&#8217;s Iranian election. Rather than a crisis of faith in Iranian politics, it merely demonstrates his unyielding allegiance to the Islamic Republic. With questions being raised whether Mohammad Khatami was prepared, or even had the stomach, to stand in Iran&#8217;s presidential elections on June 14th, &#8230; <span class="more-link"><a href="http://theibtaurisblog.com/2013/06/11/khatami-irans-eternal-candidate/">Continue reading &#187;</a></span><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theibtaurisblog.com&#038;blog=27658467&#038;post=7213&#038;subd=theibtaurisblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Painting of the Week: 72</title>
		<link>http://theibtaurisblog.com/2013/06/07/painting-of-the-week-72/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 07:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Craig Staff]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Adrienne Rich]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Edgar Degas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Doig, Canoe Lake, 1997, oil on canvas, 200 x 300 cm, Saatchi Gallery. Although, according to Rainer Rochlitz, one of the most striking phenomena of the past few decades within the context of the visual arts has been the various exchanges between painting and photography, these exchanges were arguably taking place much earlier within &#8230; <span class="more-link"><a href="http://theibtaurisblog.com/2013/06/07/painting-of-the-week-72/">Continue reading &#187;</a></span><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theibtaurisblog.com&#038;blog=27658467&#038;post=7110&#038;subd=theibtaurisblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Air Power in World War I</title>
		<link>http://theibtaurisblog.com/2013/06/05/air-power-in-world-war-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 07:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maryam Philpott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[First World War]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our understanding of the First World War tends to focus on trench warfare, but by looking at the perspectives of British pilots the limitations of an army-centric approach is revealed. The First World War began almost a hundred years ago and since then countless books have been published on almost every aspect of that conflict. &#8230; <span class="more-link"><a href="http://theibtaurisblog.com/2013/06/05/air-power-in-world-war-i/">Continue reading &#187;</a></span><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theibtaurisblog.com&#038;blog=27658467&#038;post=7053&#038;subd=theibtaurisblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The New Suffragettes</title>
		<link>http://theibtaurisblog.com/2013/06/04/the-new-suffragettes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 07:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[100 years after Emily Wilding Davison lost her life at the Epsom Derby, the Suffragettes&#8217; legacy lives on as modern day feminists continue to use the female body to confront depoliticisation. June 2013 marks the centenary of the death of British suffragette Emily Wilding Davison, who died as a result of injuries sustained after being &#8230; <span class="more-link"><a href="http://theibtaurisblog.com/2013/06/04/the-new-suffragettes/">Continue reading &#187;</a></span><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theibtaurisblog.com&#038;blog=27658467&#038;post=7142&#038;subd=theibtaurisblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Painting of the Week: 71</title>
		<link>http://theibtaurisblog.com/2013/05/31/painting-of-the-week-71/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 15:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adriaen Coorte (ca. 1665 – after 1707), Still Life With Asparagus, 1697, oil on canvas, 25 x 20.5 cm, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Vegetables are deserving, occasionally, of a bit of majesty and concentration outside of the kitchen. It’s a sentiment shared by dutch painter Adriaen Coorte who in this still-life manages to imbue the humble asparagus &#8230; <span class="more-link"><a href="http://theibtaurisblog.com/2013/05/31/painting-of-the-week-71/">Continue reading &#187;</a></span><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theibtaurisblog.com&#038;blog=27658467&#038;post=7137&#038;subd=theibtaurisblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Armed With Words (Yemen)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2013 07:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our final instalment from Writing Revolution, Jamal Jubran writes lightly and candidly about growing up an outsider in Yemen, and language&#8217;s ability to empower. I look back now at the life I’ve led, at my childhood, and ask myself: How is it that I experienced such pain? I was a singularly ungifted child, physically &#8230; <span class="more-link"><a href="http://theibtaurisblog.com/2013/05/30/armed-with-words-yemen/">Continue reading &#187;</a></span><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theibtaurisblog.com&#038;blog=27658467&#038;post=7090&#038;subd=theibtaurisblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coming Down From the Tower (Bahrain)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 07:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our penultimate Writing Revolution extract, Ali Aldairy tells the story of a nation’s ignored revolution as a result of a near total media blackout from international and Arab news organisations. In the afternoon, my friend Abdel Wahhab and I left my house, in the Jabalat Habashi district, near Sanabis and not far from Pearl &#8230; <span class="more-link"><a href="http://theibtaurisblog.com/2013/05/29/coming-down-from-the-tower-bahrain/">Continue reading &#187;</a></span><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theibtaurisblog.com&#038;blog=27658467&#038;post=7009&#038;subd=theibtaurisblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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