Childhood is the kingdom of magic. In this world, the child invents new secret languages, speaks with people and creatures visible only to her eyes. She is happy.
Aby Warburg
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Lamenting Images: ‘New Ghost Stories’ at Palais de Tokyo
PARIS — “Museum and mausoleum are connected by more than phonetic association,” the theorist and critic Theodor Adorno wrote in 1953. At the Palais de Tokyo, the sepulchral New Ghost Stories (Nouvelles Histoires de Fantômes) revisits this relationship by addressing the museum exhibition in the age of its mechanical reproduction.
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Concerns Arise About Future of Important Warburg Art History Archive
One of London’s expansive resources of cultural and art history may face an uncertain future and is currently the center of controversy.
