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Sarah Sheard is completing a PhD on the female body in Roman art at Peterhouse, Cambridge University.

Posted inOpinion

The Problem With Exhibitions About “The Times We Live In”

by Sarah Sheard October 31, 2021October 29, 2021

The noble ambitions of these shows doom them to be listicles, box-ticking exercises struggling to meaningfully speak to the issues of our sociocultural moment.

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