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Life's weird majesty

Ned Denny — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 12:00:00 GMT

Shroom: a cultural history of the magic mushroom Andy Letcher Faber & Faber, 360pp, �12.99 ISBN 0571227708

Keeping it surreal

Ned Denny — Mon, 15 May 2006 12:00:00 GMT

In the 1920s Georges Bataille's art magazine Documents embraced all that was "soiled, senile, rank, sordid" in western civilisation. Its radical message is as fresh as ever

Illegal highs

Ned Denny — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 12:00:00 GMT

The Devil's Picnic: a tour of everything the governments of the world don't want you to try Taras Grescoe Macmillan, 359pp, �12.99 ISBN 1405045817

Altered states

Ned Denny — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 12:00:00 GMT

Supernatural: meetings with the ancient teachers of mankind Graham Hancock Century, 710pp, �20 ISBN 1844136817

Bad impressions

Ned Denny — Mon, 26 May 2003 12:00:00 GMT

Art - Ned Denny is relieved by the lack of prettiness in Pissarro's suburban landscapes

Eloquent visions

Ned Denny — Mon, 07 Apr 2003 12:00:00 GMT

Photography - Ned Denny on achieving the transfiguration of painting from behind the lens

Variety show

Ned Denny — Mon, 17 Mar 2003 12:00:00 GMT

Art - Ned Denny finds much to admire in a diverse exhibition of contemporary work

Infinitely fabulous

Ned Denny — Mon, 10 Mar 2003 12:00:00 GMT

Art - Ned Denny on the search for the sublime in a return to landscape painting

Three colours white

Ned Denny — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 12:00:00 GMT

Art - Ned Denny explores the infinite possibilities of emptiness and absence

Taoist visions

Ned Denny — Mon, 10 Feb 2003 12:00:00 GMT

Art - Ned Denny enters the strange, invisible world of Chinese landscape paintings