marcus westbury

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Traditionalists will hate me but I am less and less convinced that artforms are a particularly useful way to slice up the way that cultures are talked about or resourced in the world.
The qualities that interest me are far more about the resonance of cultures, [...]

I am stuck in a hotel in Singapore for three days.
If you aren’t into shopping for high end luxury brands and you’ve discovered that the cheap electronics that this place was once awash with are nowadays not-as-cheap-as-they-used-to-be electronics spending time here can be something of an ordeal.
In a world of low tariffs, where luxury [...]