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One Fine Show: “Views of Vexation of Spirit” at the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto

The show finds room for beauty and horror in equal measure, from Kiefer's iron sunflowers to the Chapman brothers' scenes of carnage in miniature.

It’s difficult to remember the era of “Cool Britannia” as we observe the country’s steep decline. A British accent will always go a long way with people attracted to men, but there was a period in the 1990s when it could have been argued that the U.K. occupied the avant-garde of music, fashion, film and visual art. “London Swings Again,” proclaimed the cover of a 1997 issue of Vanity Fair. Last month a cover story in the Atlantic explained “How Britain Became as Poor as Mississippi.”

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