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Culture cannot survive in isolation

HOWEVER the coronavirus epic plays out, there are valuable lessons for all of us to learn from it about the nature of our contemporary culture industry. Consider Venice, already battered by a succession of and then almost deserted by virus-fearing tourists. Early reports suggested hotel

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