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Oli Court
Oli Court

Oli Court is an aspiring writer from South London, with short stories featured in The Cabinet of Heed and Portmanteau magazine. He hosts a show dedicated to ambient and downtempo music on Riverside Radio, and finds inspiration for his writing from these genres.

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“At the Shooting Gallery”: Jeanne Mammen’s Paintings of Decadence and Desolation in 1920s Weimar Germany  

Her paintings show that all can be undone in a moment.

In 2019, the Tate Modern in London held an exhibition entitled “Magic Realism: Art in Weimar Germany 1919-33.” One painting on display burrowed deep into my brain, Jeanne Mammen’s At the Shooting Gallery, a work from 1929, which depicted the exact moment when misery and pleasure dove-tailed in the powder keg of Weimar Germany in […]

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