September 2026
Trois Crayons Magazine, September 2026
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What John Berger Saw That We Still Don't, with Tom Overton
John Berger transformed the way generations thought about art, politics and the act of looking. Best known for Ways of Seeing, his work ranged across migration, capitalism, war and mortality, always asking how culture can help us understand the world around us. Shahidha Bari speaks with Tom Overton about his new book, John Berger: From Life. An intriguing conversation that revisits a classic and explores how Berger’s politics shape his writing on art, migration and power.
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The Standard Of Living
On the stage, at Theatre Royal Haymarket in London, The Standard Of Living tells the story of rebel economist and Bloomsbury Group member John Maynard Keynes (21 September – 12 December). Written by James Graham, the production features Rory Kinnear, Natalia Osipova and Thomas Flynn.
On screen, The Big Deal with Steph McGovern, a six-part series dubbed “The Apprentice for the art world”, is currently broadcasting on the BBC. The show pits aspiring art dealers against one another. While it provides some gamified exposure to the mechanics of the art market, the show distinguishes collecting and dealing in art from actually learning about it, and so if it is enlightenment that you seek on topics such as history or provenance, you may be better served with Fake or Fortune?.
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Rijksmuseum Receives Rare Seventeenth-Century Drawing Book
The Amsterdam Van Eeghen family has donated an extremely rare early seventeenth-century drawing book to the Rijksmuseum. In the family’s possession for more than three centuries, the artist of the drawings was unknown until around 20 years ago when a link was established with Rombout Uylenburgh, a Dutch painter who worked at the Polish royal court in Kraków and whose family had links to Rembrandt. A presentation centered around the book can be seen in room 2.7 of the Rijksmuseum until 29 November.
