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Take a day trip to the seaside villages of L’Estaque and Les Goudes, at each end of Marseille

1 month ago | afr.com | Robert Bevan

Robert BevanMay 22, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Two fishing villages at either end of the Bay of Marseille guard the city’s coastline like a pair of crab claws. At the northern edge of the seafront is L’Estaque, with its bohemian artistic past; at the southern limits is Les Goudes, which looks set for an increasingly bourgeois future.
Minority Rule by Ash Sarkar

1 month ago | the-tls.co.uk | Robert Bevan

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"The fears raised by those original renderings have been fully realised"

1 month ago | dezeen.com | Robert Bevan

Selldorf Architects' renovation of the National Gallery's Sainsbury Wing has eradicated most of the building's postmodern charm, writes Robert Bevan. "Flimsy corporate blandness" and an "airport-concourse aesthetic": architects, critics and heritage campaigners alike were aghast when they first saw Selldorf Architects' renderings for proposed changes to Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown's 1991 Sainsbury Wing at London's National Gallery.
A Dead Cat on Your Table by Peter York

1 month ago | the-tls.co.uk | Robert Bevan |Lenni Sanders |James Cook |Lucy Scholes

To access over 1000 book reviews, essays and more, subscribe here‘Ground zero for the liberal elite’A guide to various culture war types What a peculiar book this is. Peter York, best known for his cod-anthropological examination of British society’s various snobby tribes, The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook (1982), has turned his attention to the culture wars.
A sense of wonder

2 months ago | the-tls.co.uk | Gabriel Byng |Jonathan Buckley |Robert Bevan |Serguei Alex. Oushakine

To access over 1000 book reviews, essays and more, subscribe hereA sense of wonderHow medieval people responded to their buildingsWhenever somebody muses on how impressive medieval churches must have been to their contemporaries, I think, “Sure, but are they any less spectacular now?” There are still few architectural experiences as thrilling as stepping into a vast, chilly cathedral and looking up.
How to make the most of the south of France’s best art

Mar 25, 2025 | afr.com | Lap Phan |Robert Bevan

Robert BevanMar 26, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? All the clocks are stopped at the Villa Noailles. The 15-bedroom concrete house, designed in 1923, was one of France’s first modernist homes, rambling across the slopes above the hill town of Hyères in Provence.
"When we place people on a pedestal, we only diminish ourselves"

Mar 12, 2025 | dezeen.com | Robert Bevan

Statuemania is back, but the political weaponisation of memorials will not end happily, writes Robert Bevan. There's a short, cobbled street in Munich still known as Shirkers' Alley. It was the route locals took during the Third Reich to avoid passing a Nazi war memorial around the corner. Performing a respectful Hitler salute at the memorial was compulsory. Non-compliance was punished. It's an extreme example of the reverence sometimes demanded of secular monuments.
Fierce Desires by Rebecca L. Davis

Jan 29, 2025 | the-tls.co.uk | Cordelia Fine |Robert Bevan |Adam Sutcliffe |Nat Segnit

Rebecca L. Davis’s magisterial new book, Fierce Desires: A new history of sex and sexuality in America, concludes with a 2023 decision by a federal judge in Texas, Matthew Kacsmaryk, to outlaw the distribution by mail of the abortion drug mifepristone.
The English country house in an age of excess

Jan 29, 2025 | the-tls.co.uk | Robert Bevan

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Marseille, France, guide to Le Panier district, best places to stay and dine away from the tourist traps

Dec 11, 2024 | afr.com | Robert Bevan

Life & LuxuryTravelThe French city’s gritty, colourful past is exemplified in the Panier district. Here’s a guide to where to stay and dine – away from the tourist traps. Robert BevanDec 12, 2024 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber?