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Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern 28.08.21 – 22.05.22 What is the meaning of community, and what forms does it take? What are authority and power based on? Paul Klee is often perceived as an apolitical artist. The exhibition Paul Klee. Humans Among Themselves contradicts this perception and shows that a social or political dimension is often hidden behind the facade of his works. From the artist’s ‘superterrestrial’ perspective, Klee observes the human community, analyses its tensions and conflicts and depicts it in an ironically detached way, reduced to its essence. The exhibition is complemented by choreographies by the inclusive dance group BewegGrund.   Paul Klee, D. Garten zur roten Sonnen blume, 1924, 12. Aquarell auf Papier auf Karton, 31,8 x 41,4 cm. Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Museumsstiftung für Kunst der Burgergemeinde Bern. With a zoological view   In Klee’s works human beings often look like an alien species that is yet to be explored. The artist observes them with an almost ‘

  Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art September 29, 2021- "Untitled," 1972, by Jasper Johns. Oil, encaustic, and collage on canvas with objects (four panels), 72 × 192 1/4 in. (182.9 × 488.3 cm) overall. Museum Ludwig, Cologne; donation Ludwig, 1976. © 2021 Jasper Johns/VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. The most comprehensive retrospective to date of the work of Jasper Johns, organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, will be presented simultaneously in New York and Philadelphia this fall. A single exhibition in two venues, this unprecedented collaboration,  Jasper   Johns: Mind/Mirror , will be the artist’s first major museum retrospective on the East Coast in a quarter century. It opens concurrently in Philadelphia and in New York on September 29, 2021. Resulting from five years of scholarship and an inventive rethinking of Johns’s art, the exhibition will contain nearly 500 works. I

I think it was right to give Tim Davie the benefit of the doubt when he was appointed BBC DG, especially as he said many of the right things about putting BBC impartiality first. But it's led nowhere so far. He won't step in and release the Balen Report, or stop BBC executives from loading the schedules with 'woke' programming, or rein in senior journalists from expressing their views in BBC reports... ...or, as Arthur T points out on the open thread, 'sanction' even the BBC's gobbiest tweeters.  For as the Guido Fawkes site reports , not one person at the BBC has been sanctioned for social media breaches of impartiality this year - not even Lewis Goodall or Emily Maitlis. This was one of the most widely reported promises from Tim Davie following his appointment - that there was a problem he acknowledged about BBC journalists sounding off on Twitter in flagrant breach of BBC impartiality guidelines and that he would be the man who'd crack down

Writer and freelance journalist Jan Shure has an interesting piece at Jewish News concerning the infamous Balen Report into bias as regards the BBC's coverage of the Israel-Palestinian conflict. The BBC has spent 17 years and lashings and lashings of licence fee payers' money refusing to release it to the public - or as Jan puts it ''wriggling and weaselling its way out of revealing'' it. It's been a saga, far longer than most Icelandic ones.  Jan reports that BBC DG Tim Davie has now, ''very belatedly'', replied to her MP Theresa Villiers's letter about it. And what did Tim, the So-Far Ineffectual Champion of BBC Impartiality, have to say when he did reply? Well, to cut a long story short, he stuck to the BBC line - hook, line and sinker.  Yes, he'd discussed it with the people who'd previously refused to make it public and, yes, they told him it should still be kept under wraps. So no change whatsoever. Suppress

Wonder what Newsnight 's Lewis Goodall is after here ? Well, whatever it is, I think Adrian Hilton captures it rather well : I'm pleased to learn of this project from Lewis Goodall at BBC Newsnight. Please send directly to him your harrowing tales of grief, anxiety, depression, exasperation, desperation, and thoughts of suicide over the intolerable (/impossible) costs of the #claddingscandal.

  Madrid, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza,  14 September 2021 to 30 January 2022.  Barcelona, Caixaforum, 24 February to 5 June 2022. Curator: Guillermo Solana The Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza is holding the first retrospective in Madrid on the Belgian artist and leading Surrealist René Magritte (1898-1967) since the exhibition held at the Fundación Juan March in 1989. Its title,  The Magritte machine , emphasises the repetitive and combinatorial element present in the work of this painter, whose obsessive themes constantly recur with innumerable variations. Magritte’s boundless imagination gave rise to a very large number of audacious compositions and provocative images which alter the viewer’s perception, question our preconceived reality and provoke reflection. René Magritte.  The Dream , 1945. Utsonomiya Museum of Art, Japan Curated by Guillermo Solana, the museum’s artistic director,  The Magritte machine  is benefiting from the collaboration of Comun

John Simpson, the BBC's impartial yet highly opinionated World Affairs Editor, having previously spoken his brains and vented his spleen on Twitter against the Biden administration's withdrawal from nation-building in Afghanistan, has today posted a piece on the BBC News website saying the same at greater length. The piece's headline doesn't bother to disguise its author's opinion - or his name.  John Simpson on Afghanistan: A country abandoned   And in it the famous John Simpson of the BBC gives a full-bodied defence of The West's 'liberal interventionalist' intervention in Afghanistan.  To summarise: Our intervention was a good thing and it achieved even more than we think it did, and we could have kept on keeping on there.  And he then gives a cry from the heart about the horrible consequences of our withdrawal. I don't think Tony Blair himself would demur from a single word of it. John Simpson may or may not be right, but it stil

  There was a revealing comment, in passing, from BBC presenter Martine Croxall to Dateline London  Canadian regular Jeffrey Kofman this weekend : What Extinction Rebellion are saying, Jeffrey, isn't exactly controversial, is it?  Hm.  Some  - at the very least - of what they're saying is certainly controversial - e.g. their claims, and their targets, and the possible economic impact of their proposals. Is this rosy view of XR common at the BBC?

  A prominent story in the Sunday Telegraph today , Top scholars launch fightback against woke brigade’s ‘blatantly false’ reading of history , tells how ''leading academics'' [e.g. Prof. Robert Tombs] are ''joining forces'' for a campaign called History Reclaimed which is ''aimed at calling out misleading narratives about historical figures'' in the light of ''growing consternation at the steady march of “woke” ideology which has seen statues pulled down, university degrees “decolonised” and museum exhibits relabelled or removed altogether''.  The Telegraph report was discussed on this morning's BBC Radio 4  Broadcasting House paper review and all three  of Paddy's guests mocked it, presenting it a non-story, and dismissing concerns about “woke” as right-wing nonsense.  It's the BBC, so who's surprised at this very BBC meeting of like minds?  As Rod Liddle once put it , ''On Radio Four, yo