The maddening genius
Edmund Wilson
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Grants
University of Reading Research grants Professor B. Hoskins, Drs P. Valdes and M. Blackburn, Pounds 65,907 from the NERC (development and use of an intermediate GCM); Dr A. Parker and Professor B....
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A brush with learning
In 1996, if you add together the total number of art and design graduates in Europe and America in a single year, the total comes to more than the entire population of Florence in the Renaissance....
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Chairs
University of Essex Ernesto Laclau, department of government and director of the centre for theoretical studies, has been appointed honorary professor of the University of Buenos Aires. Royal...
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Fellowships
University of Wolverhampton. Honorary fellowships were awarded to: John Nettles, actor; and Terry Venables, former England football team coach. University of Manchester Tony Trinci, professor in the...
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Knowledge industry gets down to business
Universities will need to grasp the nettle of open learning if they are to survive. Tim Greenhalgh reports. Corporation campuses, the global academies, learning cultures, mutual profit were some of...
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Don's Diary
June/July Bid farewell to registry duties at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London and embark on a one-month teaching English as a foreign language course in preparation for two years...
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Honorary degrees
University of Oxford The university has proposed to confer an honorary degree (Doctor of Civil Law) by diploma on Roman Herzog, president of the Federal Republic of Germany. University of Sheffield...
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Nudes and Tin-Tin
Julian Opie recalls life at a London art college in the late 1970s, when the teachers were so cool they outclassed the students. The European League of Institutes of the Arts, founded in Amsterdam in...
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Drawing inspiration
Gillian Crampton-Smith reveals how artists in computer-related design are working with engineers to develop software and hardware. It was clear by 1990 that the increasing miniaturisation of...
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Selective values
Colin Painter believes that the arts should find a place in the lives of people outside the professional art worlds. The issues surrounding "multiculturalism" are arguably the most significant for...
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White on black
Elaine Williams talks to Marlene Dumas, the white South African artist who specialises in painting black people. Marlene Dumas, one of the speakers at ELIA, is a white South African who chooses to...
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Paint the town green
Design education must reflect the growing need for environmentally sound products, says John Sorrell. Designers are renowned for finding inspirational solutions to highly complicated problems. There...
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Stealthy steps to success
Art and design is a European growth area, but it remains bedevilled by conservatism, argues Katharine Crouan. Over the past five years, surprisingly little analysis has been undertaken at a European...
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Appointments
Oxford centre for Hebrew and Jewish studies Brad Sabin Hill, curator of Rare Hebrew Books in the National Library of Canada (1979-89) and head of the Hebrew section of the British Library (1989-95)...