A computer code designed to access the world’s nuclear arsenal forms the basis for another Millennium series story. Typical of Stieg Larsson – but this time David Lagercrantz – the story draws upon interpersonal forces that transcend the crime thriller and imbue it with deeper meaning. While Dan Brown ‘does the’ weird religious symbology, Sieig Larsson prefers the scary domestics. The black leather cladded, bike riding, computer hacker along with other lonesome characters are set within an appropriately alienating industrial landscape to complete the Larsson formula where the external reflects the internal. Continue reading The Girl in the Spider’s Web
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In February 2015 Gauguin’s Nafea Faa Ipoipo, (When Will You Marry?) sold for a record $300m making it the most expensive painting to go to sale.* Since then only Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi has broken that record for approximately $450m reinforcing Gauguin as an unquestioned historical master. Even if these values seem obscenely inflated it begs the question, what is behind the Gauguin phenomena and is it driven purely by aesthetic value? Continue reading Gauguin
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