This summer, two museums in Paris will host a major retrospective of a new generation of French artists (born after 1975), who have now spread their wings around the globe. Two insiders have been asked to give their opinions of the current French art scene and the developments it is undergoing. Dorothée Dupuis takes a look at the artists, and Chris Sharp at the institutes.

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Terry Eagleton
From Moses to Marx (and back)

08/12/08  Joost de Bloois

In January, the British literary theorist and philosopher, Terry Eagleton, will be speaking on religion in the lecture series, Now is the Time, in Amsterdam. As an introduction, here is an intellectual portrait of a thinker who is known as one of Great Britain's most vehement polemicists.

Is religion really in the midst of a revival? In The Return of Religion and Other Myths, art historian Sven Lütticken investigates the supposed rise of religion in society through the work of contemporary artists.

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From worse to worse. This is how one might qualify Eastern Europe’s conception of History.

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