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Arborescence
Marcus did not know what to expect. The man with whom he had spoken on the phone made little sense. A number of names had been mentioned,...

Jack Graveney
6 min read


Where the Thames Meets the Sea
To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to...

Julian Kirwan-Taylor
11 min read


Art under Siege: In Conversation with Mykhailo Glubokyi
Three Stories of Art and War II

Constance Uzwyshyn
10 min read


Art at the Arsenal: In Conversation with Olesya Ostrovska-Liuta
Three Stories of Art and War I коли гуркочуть гармати- музи замовкають The Russian invasion catapulted the Ukrainian art world into...

Constance Uzwyshyn
16 min read


Karl Heinz Bohrer’s 'A Little Pleasure in Decline. Essays on Britain'
Karl Heinz Bohrer’s A Little Pleasure in Decline. Essays on Britain. [1] My friend Karl Heinz Bohrer died on 4 August 2021. He was seen...

Giles MacDonogh
14 min read


Can Modern Appropriation Art be Reconciled with Copyright Law? A Closer Look at Cariou v. Prince
Artists have drawn ideas, thoughts, and concepts from the works of others for centuries. However, copyright infringement issues...

Marysia Opadczuk
15 min read


The Next Civil War: In Conversation with Stephen Marche
Stephen Marche is a novelist, essayist and cultural commentator. He is the author of half a dozen books and has written opinion pieces...

Charlotte Friesen
6 min read


Dublin and Urban Development: In Conversation with Dr. Alison Gilliland
Dr. Alison Gilliland was Dublin’s 353rd Lord Mayor in 2021/2022. She is currently a Dublin City Councillor for the Labour Party,...

Kylie Quinn
14 min read


The Glitz and Glamour of the Metaverse
At the heart of the metaverse stands the vision of an immersive Internet—a gigantic, unified, persistent, and shared realm.[1] To the...

Danielle Jump
14 min read


Foreword to CJLPA 2 by Martin Wilson, Honorary Editor and Chief General Counsel at Phillips
As I read the insightful, entertaining, scholarly, and diverse articles in this issue of The Cambridge Journal of Law, Politics, and Art...

Martin Wilson
4 min read


Heraldic Politics: Why Flags Still Matter
The Estonian flag is a blue-black-white tricolour. Or at least it should be. As a foreign correspondent in 1990, I was puzzled to see...

Edward Lucas
5 min read


Ukrainian Identity in Paint: In Conversation with Oleg Tistol
Oleg Tistol is one of Ukraine’s leading contemporary artists, who works with stereotypes associated with Ukrainian everyday life and...

Constance Uzwyshyn
19 min read


Building the Jam Factory: In Conversation with Bozhena Pelenska
Three Stories of Art and War III

Constance Uzwyshyn
9 min read


Notre-Dame de Paris: Pyrolysis Hypothesis and Fire Safety in Historical Buildings
On Monday 15 April, a fire broke out in the Notre-Dame de Paris. Believers and tourists were invited to leave the cathedral immediately....

Rémi Desalbres
6 min read


A Note on the Controversy concerning Eric Gill
On 12 January 2022, there was an attempt to destroy, or at least damage, the statue of Prospero and Ariel installed outside the BBC’s...

Peter Brooke
25 min read


Amir Tataloo, Beyond Resistance and Propaganda: The Appropriation of Iranian Rap Music and the Negotiation of its Legality
Introduction No one knows about Amir Tataloo. Bahman Ghobadi’s film No One Knows About Persian Cats (2009) could be seen as a dynamic...

Casper Alexander Sanderson
35 min read


No Place Like Home: An Emigrant’s Epic Tale
Lesia's poem No Place Like Home explores the shared human longing for a home, not only as a search for a refuge or place to settle, or a...

Lesia Daria
1 min read


Bonnie and Clyde, Schopenhauer, and the Paradox and Problem of Innocence
In the 1967 gangster road movie Bonnie and Clyde , the often-horrific events of the real-life story are cut with ingenuous humour and...

Paul Pickering
5 min read


Art in the Time of NFTs: Navigating the Challenges and Role of NFTs in Artists’ Reclamation of Control over their Publicity Rights
I see NFTs as a way to innovate, empower others and push the boundaries of how artists interact with their fans. I see NFTs…as the future...

Bo Hyun Kim
20 min read


Notes on Counter-Archives: ‘Recovering’ Queer Memory in Contemporary Art
Introduction In Zoe Leonard’s photograph of Fae Richards and June Walker, two women wrap their arms around each other and gaze lovingly...
Sophia Dime
36 min read


A Fictional War (Which the West Can’t Win)
In Lesia’s three-in-one poem A Fictional War , two voices speak in separated monologues but are also integrated and juxtaposed. The poem...

Lesia Daria
1 min read


The Art Industry in Ukraine During the War
The article examines the current state of the Ukrainian contemporary art market in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the...

Gallery Portal 11
38 min read


All the Law’s a Stage! Shakespearean Insights and their Resonance Today
Shakespeare understood much about the role of law in society, possibly thanks to his direct links with London’s Inns of Court. The Inns...

The Rt Hon Lady Arden
26 min read


A Symphony of Defiance: How Music Spearheads Sikh and Punjabi Articulations of Political Resistance
Bury [music] so deep under the earth that no sound or echo of it may rise again. —Attributed to the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb[1] Over...

Jeevan Singh Riyait
8 min read
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