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Content:

• Editors' Note
• Alison M Gingeras on Lives of the Artists
• Alain de Botton on Edward Hopper
• Gregory Crewdson on Edward Hopper
• Sigmar Polke on Richard Dadd
• Adrian Searle, Paulina Olowska, Peter Doig and Chris Ofili on Luc Tuymans
• Jemima Montagu on the Art of the Garden
• Martin Postle and Christoph Becker on the Art of the Garden
• Mike Kelley and Jeffrey Sconce on The Uncanny
• The Perception of Symmetry
• MicroTate
• Linda Yablonsky visits Anne Chu
• Peter Pakesch on Museums
• Paul Farley in the Tate Archive
• Microtate Online Exclusive

Alain de Botton on Edward Hopper

‘Edward Hopper belongs to a particular category of artist whose work appears sad but does not make us sad…perhaps because they allow us as viewers to witness an echo of our own griefs and disappointments, and thereby to feel less personally persecuted and beset by them’ Alain de Botton discusses The Pleasures of Sadness.

Edward Hopper
Automat 1927
© Des Moines Art Center, Iowa; Permanent Collection
Oil on canvas
71.4 x 91.4 cm

The Perception of Symmetry

Michael Bird on notions of how symmetry, the doppelgänger, duality and mirror images have played a part in the way artists view themselves and the world around them.

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