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Toward Modernity

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We've been working on " Toward Modernity: 300 Years of British Art " for more than a year; tomorrow I set off to Beijing for the opening at the World Art Museum. 

After

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Installed this month on the Irwell Sculpture Trail , Tony Lopez 's new text work After . This is one of three inscribed plaques installed in Radcliffe, Lancashire, along a footpath and a canal towpath near Radcliffe Metrolink Tram Station, part of the work After , also known as The Scattered Poem , a holocaust memorial piece that Tony has been planning for the last few years.  The title  After  comes from Theodor Adorno: 'Nach Auschwitz ein Gedicht zu schreiben ist barbarisch' (To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric) from  Prismen: Kulturkritik und Gesellschaft  (1963).  The original poem is 28 verses, a particularly abstract piece that was composed using a text generator program that randomised vocabulary combinations from an original draft that he wrote on a visit to Providence, Rhode Island, in the late 90s. The program was run many times to produce a vast text and the results were then edited down to a tiny fraction of the output. This text was then