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Nathan Shields

Nathan Shields is a composer, writer, and associate faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. He is a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow.
Medieval-esque sketches of good and evil are shown in opposition to one another. In the middle, an angel holds the throat of a devil as they wrestle with a sword held high up in the air.

Wagnermania

When the revolution came to Dresden in 1849, Richard Wagner greeted it with unhinged ecstasy. “Whatever stands, must fall,” the thirty-five-year-old court conductor wrote that April in the radical periodical Volksblätter. “I will break the power of the mighty, of law, of ...