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Olivia Fane
Olivia Fane is a psychiatric social worker turned writer. She is the author of both novels and non-fiction books, and most recently Why Sex Doesn’t Matter, which addresses the politics, the obsessions, the misconceptions of one of the most important aspects of human existence

Olivia Fane is a psychiatric social worker turned writer. She is the author of both novels and non-fiction books, and most recently Why Sex Doesn’t Matter, which addresses the politics, the obsessions, the misconceptions of one of the most important aspects of human existence
Olivia Fane Videos

Trash, trends and the transcendent
Has culture lost sight of the sublime?

Sex, relationships and the future
Should we pursue love and sex separately?

The limits of sexuality
Should we eradicate sexuality from our public live
Olivia Fane Articles
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The Beautiful Universe
Is beauty hardwired into our world?

The Mystery of Music
Explaining the transcendental

Banksy and the Media Barons
Julian Stallabrass charts the rise of a generation of media-savvy artists raking in millions.

Michelangelo vs Damien Hirst
Has contemporary art lost its way?

Duchamp's Deception
Julian Spalding | Was Duchamp a fraud?

Truth and Poetry
Andrew Motion | Where does poetry gets its power?

The Secrets of the Uncanny
What does our sense of the uncanny say about us?

Seizing the Means of Production
Brian Eno: What the Future Could Look Like

The Emperor's New Art
From where does art get its value?

Con Art
Should we redefine conceptual art?

On Ugliness
Why 'ugliness' is a virtue

Becoming Human
Can art change who you are?

Beauty Bites Back
Could beauty be real rather than subjective?

Music's Mystery
The secret to music's emotion

Life, Beauty and Being
Is beauty something we now buy?

American Surreal
Artist Susan Hiller looks back on her career with Serpentine co-director Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Broken Beauty
How can art combat the power of oil and money?

The Best is to Come
What is the future of art?

What is the Power of Art?
The work of art in the age of mass consumption

Dying for Dior
Is fashion an aesthetic art form?

Nicolas Roeg
The legendary director makes the case for cinema defined by risks, accidents and adventure.

On the Air with Annie Nightingale
Reflections on a life at music's cutting edge

Art and the Artful
Concept, craftsmanship and art

The Good, the Bad and the Artist
Should we separate the artist from the art?

Is Beauty Back?
The future of art

The Naked Truth
How does the body in art relate to physical-being? Is nudity ever more than a sales tactic?

The Limits of Art

Art Couture

Reinventing Film
The rise of independent cinema

The Emperor's New God
Can art replace religion?

Of Wonder and Terror
Science, art, and the sublime

The Schlock of the New
The strange vulnerability of giant corporations

The Screen Age

A Wonder Full World
Is the sublime real?

Blowing in the Wind
Pop-star revolutionaries

Time and Tate
the story of art in Britain

The New Beautiful

The Art of Activism
Patricia MacCormack | Creative protest for impact

Hitler's Art War

Taking Over the Gallery

Yes, It Really is Beautiful!

Pollock on Pollock Squared

The Cinema of Ideas

Abstract Graffiti

New British Art Double-Bill

Maps of Mystery
Can art help us catch sight of the ineffable? Or, do we mystify existence at our peril?

Six Billion Characters in Search of an Author

The View From Outside

Cultures of the Body

The Music of Revolt
More Articles

Ritual, transcendence & psychedelics

The dangers of celebrity

Celebrity is power

Marx, Nietzsche and philosophy at Christmas
Addiction is not just a medical problem

The love lives of philosophers changed how we think
How we can predict fashion

Digital won't replace analog

Drowning in Drugs

The Deception of Genealogy

Narcissism is the new religion

The metaphysics of laughing gas

The dangers of a sober society

The dangers of freedom & the threats of community

Transcending the self and finding reality

How to be happy, despite modernity

Why it's easier to do evil than to do good

Why everyone's having less sex

The unexpected reason holidays matter

The virtues of virtue signalling

6 philosophers on the perils of gifts

Sex, art and technology

Psychedelic experience isn’t just brain chemistry

ChatGPT: the route to loneliness?

When to believe lies

The spiritual dimensions of rave culture

The farce of the fifteen-minute city

Solving the mental health epidemic starts with trust

Reclaiming the commons

Opening the black box