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The Gods have not returned. “They have never left us.”
On choosing to acknowledge the Muse
Mar 24
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October 2022
A Supreme Fiction
Reflecting on a strange novel, briefly
Oct 28, 2022
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Interim: Two Poems
Latch | The Rocks
Oct 2, 2022
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May 2022
The Great Debasement
How art-world institutions have corrupted the terms of the art encounter, for Tablet
May 26, 2022
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February 2022
Art for Art’s Sake in the 21st Century
A French history of the concept, Nietzsche’s stance, and artists of the Paleolithic
Feb 8, 2022
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Alice Gribbin
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November 2021
The Empathy Racket
The pious and dreary insistence on heightened empathy as a proper or desirable response to art is made only by those with a stunted understanding of…
Nov 2, 2021
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Welcome
Essays on contemporary arts & letters by Alice Gribbin
Nov 1, 2021
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