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new fav artist. new obsession. if you’re in London and 16-25 go see the 80s exhibit on at Tate Britain rn (it’s £5 if you’re apart of their Tate community thing).
Apr 11, 2025
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Check out the hottest club in New York (Toronto)! It has everything: mini ivory statues of biblical scenes from 9th century Europe, a mirror installation from a Japanese artist whose name I forgot, remembrandt paintings, Afro Caribbean sculptures that wear gold air jordans, and paintings from loud of indigenous artists that made me feel alive again. And best of all? Free entrance if you have their youth annual pass for people between the ages of 14-24 baby!!
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Awesome permanent collection! Great special exhibits (the expressionists exhibit was a lot of fun). I really like how a lot of the museums in England are free for the permanent collection. We just happened to be in the area and it was so easy to make the choice to spend time here without worrying whether or not we were getting our moneys worth
Sep 6, 2024
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great art museum. building is sick . art inside is sick
Feb 11, 2025
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Mar 26, 2025
Bought this for cheap in Berlin and read this on the plane + train back to London. had to fight tears. Such a quick and beautiful read.
Mar 9, 2025
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like many of the other responses to this post, I think that having physical copies of media ensures that there is some enduring access. It’s archival.
I would also add that having the physical copies enhances engagement with the media. This is of course a privilege bc physical media is usually more expensive than digital, but I do think that consuming Digital media is often more passive. Idk. I love my phone too (and Spotify and the internet archive and Gutenberg project). But after I started collecting CDs and physical books I became very interested in getting as much as possible out of them. listening to the same album in its entirety for weeks at a time. rereading a book (Seriously, I would rarely reread a book before).
Also lending the copies to friends is the best thing in the world. Like being able to share and then discus- or even just the sharing. Whether or not you get it back it just becomes a gift. Which is nice.
Anyways to blabber on this last point: I don’t think that you always have to personally own and keep forever all of the physical media you accrue. just going to a library does a lot of the same good (supporting local archiving + engaging with stuff my tangibly + media becoming communal). learning that many libraries still have VHS, CDs, and DVDs available to check out changed my life. ya.
Mar 9, 2025