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Art & Design | Citizenship

‘Bach would be a hedge-fund manager’

Modern man: 18th Century composer Johann Sebastian Bach reimagined as Michael Burry, the American hedge fund manager whose prediction of the 2008 financial crash inspired the hit film The Big Short.

Are critics right to call it a new dark age? Film, music, TV — no new entries in popular culture seem to stack up to the classics. Some believe we are living in a cultural void.