Art in shorts
For the last few years I have been invited to give a group of classes for the Royal College of Art's Critical Writing in Art & Design MA programme. Across four weeks a group of super-smart students help me explore some more
For the last few years I have been invited to give a group of classes for the Royal College of Art's Critical Writing in Art & Design MA programme. Across four weeks a group of super-smart students help me explore some more
The Museum of Modern Art in New York recently unveiled an exciting, extraordinary and exemplary archival project, 'Exhibition history', that is putting online for free and unrestricted access thousands and thousands of installation photographs, press releases and - most more
With my colleague Dr Irene Morra from Cardiff University, I am working on a major international, interdisciplinary academic conference to be held at Senate House next June. 'Britain, Canada, and the Arts: Cultural Exchange as Post-war Renewal' will coincide with the 150th more
Or, a post in three chapters. I have been in Brisbane for just about a week now, and I think it's fair to say that, despite the weather having been so-so, I'm a little bit in love with the more
After yesterday's enthusiasm for The British Library at Turner Contemporary, here's one more post from our day trip to Margate. After lunch and an ice cream we walked back along the front and turned down into Dreamland. Recently reopened, more
To Margate for the Illuminations summer outing. Our plan was a high speed train to the seaside, a touch of high culture at Turner Contemporary, a good lunch, a touch of low culture at Dreamland, and a high speed more
Paintings glimpsed in movies are often fascinating, and invariably so when they exhibit modernist tendencies. Take a look at the painting below that is granted just two seconds or so in the British Gothic melodrama Madness of the Heart, 1949 (a detail of more
In 1966 the British artists Gerald Laing (1936-2011) and Peter Phillips (b. 1939) made the sculpture Hybrid, which is illustrated above from the immaculate online catalogue raisonné for Gerald Laing's work. Working in New York, the artists more
A shopping jaunt in Tooting today was joyfully enhanced by a 'ghostsign' for Meggezones (above). This adorns the corner of Upper Tooting Road and Noyna Road (below), just a few yards from Tooting Bec underground. Encountering such fading painted wall signs is one of the more
So for those of you who have even just a passing interest in films about the arts, this is GREAT. The online service BFIPlayer today launches The Arts on Film, a collection of more than a hundred feature more