Why the new needs repetition
Repetition need not mean retreating into the familiar. It can give the new the very chance it needs to become more than an announcement.
→Previews, reviews, profiles and essays from the editors.
A seating arrangement, a graphic, a living space: our Culture Week reveals how much depends on supposedly superficial matters. Bernd Bartolome on the art of taking questions of form seriously – without declaring every design decision sacrosanct.
READ MORERepetition need not mean retreating into the familiar. It can give the new the very chance it needs to become more than an announcement.
→On the fragility of artists’ lives, the responsibility of institutions and the courage to relinquish certainties.
→Bernd Bartolome works at the intersections of art, philosophy and artificial intelligence. His work combines artistic research with new forms of knowledge, communication and publishing.
→Preserving culture, making it accessible, opening it up digitally: all this sounds self-evidently good. But this week’s articles also show why access must not be confused with unrestricted availability.
→Not every gap needs to be filled. On a culture that looks closely without defining people and history once and for all.
→Free admission helps. But socially inclusive cultural policy must also consider time, travel and the feeling of being welcome in a museum.
→Art depicts people; institutions invite them in. But who sets the rules? A case for participation that goes beyond visibility.
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