Nadia Beard

Journalist, critic, pianist, etc. Programme director @zegfest
Instagram: @nadiawbeard

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For @NewYorker, I profiled the strange, extreme artist, Andrei Molodkin, and considered the thin line between the role of art to achieve ideological ends and political stunting.

The Artist Holding Valuable Art Hostage to Protect Julian Assange --
https://t.co/CoCdtWfgH7

[The TLS @TheTLS]

'These pictures are crystalline examples of the modern glamour shot: clear, luminous, poised between Hollywood sheen and Mediterranean sensuality.'

Nadia Beard (@NadiaWBeard): The rediscovered nudes of Elio Luxardo
https://t.co/7p6mBFL4oA

[The TLS @TheTLS]

'Shostakovich Discoveries generates a certain amount of historical anxiety: what do our creative suppressions say about us, decades after we’re no longer there to mitigate their effect?'

Nadia Beard (@NadiaWBeard): Dancing in Stalin’s shadow https://t.co/BmJeBxjNg0

[The TLS @TheTLS]

This week’s TLS, featuring @NortonTaylor and Eric Rauchway on US national security; Trevor Pateman on ‘Captain’ Warner; @liccie_rix on Henry James; @NadiaWBeard on Shostakovich; Emma Greensmith on Homer; @rix_harriet on oak trees; Barbara Heldt on Marina Tsvetaeva – and more

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My story in this week's @NatGeo: on Glarus in Switzerland, one of the few places in the world still practicing 'direct democracy', which somehow keeps trust high and polarization low—even in today’s divided world
https://t.co/w0Khmqq1mr

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Hard to choose a favourite session in an extraordinary line-up @zegfest this year, but this one is up there. @khalidabdalla in conversation with @GhaithAbdulahad about Palestine, resistance and the insatiable addictiveness of freedom

[ZEG Storytelling Festival @zegfest]

Speaking with clarity and passion during Acting Out History, @khalidabdalla told @GhaithAbdulahad, “I did have fear that in standing up I would be cancelled and my career would end. However, in standing up I found the opposite. I found circles of solidarity that were far wider than I thought they were. In standing up, I have found my people and my people have found me.”

[Armando Iannucci @Aiannucci]

I love this festival. I’m underdressed because, though I’m in Georgia, my luggage is somewhere in Paris. #Zegfest

[FT Weekend @ftweekend]

What does music gain from or lose to technology? https://t.co/cxjXUM5ncX

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A grim first story of the year -- a song cycle that made its orchestral debut this week and the murders that inspired it. An important musical project on gender-based violence by @barihopkins @MargaretAtwood @jakeheggiemusic https://t.co/aH9CisGH7u

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In the @FT this week, I wrote about a new book on the way the Russian state has, for centuries, co-oped the Orthodox church to bolster its power and its wars, an alliance, as one theologian put it, “between the missile and the incense burner.”

[FT World News @ftworldnews]

The Baton and the Cross — Putin’s cynical co-opting of Russia’s church https://t.co/c7GZRl7ONJ

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My story in last weekend's @FT: on the notion of an anti-elite opera and artistic ambiguity as antidote to the dogma of our times
https://t.co/Cq9K2ZnJnP

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For this week's @ftweekend I wrote about a new biography on the troublesome Gauguin, and what the lost manuscript of his memoir that recently resurfaced after decades reveals

[FT Weekend @ftweekend]

Gauguin’s quasi memoir, rediscovered in 2020, is a key source for a biography that captures the painter’s contradictory character: https://t.co/GsY94burD3

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Opportunity for early-career journalists 👇🏽

[Nishita Jha @NishSwish]

Incredibly exciting fellowship opportunity for early career reporters at @CodaStory - please read, share and nominate!

https://t.co/til4dXH74S

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Georgians are bracing for a crucial election this October. Will the opposition stave off the country’s turn to Russian-style authoritarianism?https://t.co/pxlRHJmPIA

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There's been a sinister atmosphere in Tbilisi this summer following the passage of the foreign agent law this spring and the brutal crackdown on those who opposed it.

For @NewYorker this week, I wrote about the knife edge Georgia finds itself on --

https://t.co/ekd2BtHStV

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@maxdaniellawton Max!!!

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

The Russian artist Andrei Molodkin’s new project is called “Dead Man’s Switch.” The dead man in question is Julian Assange; the switch will be set off if he dies in prison, destroying millions of dollars worth of artwork. https://t.co/qGPs4doDCp

[Coda Story @CodaStory]

“For Russia it’s clear. Either as an artist you’re protesting or you’re decorating the regime. Both exist. An in-between does not.”

Revisit this profile of Russian artists in exile by @NadiaWBeard. https://t.co/6uURB7NpEI

[FT Weekend Magazine @FTMag]

A new recording by the 97-year-old American pianist Ruth Slenczynska piqued @NadiaWBeard’s interest. If the past few decades of classical music were an era that fetishised the child prodigy, have we now entered an era of the older virtuoso?

https://t.co/0u8yedwho5

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Georgia's central bank has effectively shielded a former prosecutor sanctioned by the US for doing Russia's bidding in Georgia. The sanctions are the firmest evidence yet that corroborates rumours of FSB infiltration in Georgian politics. My story –
https://t.co/nKc9vvIVTi