We must recognize that painting is not all beauty and life is not always beautiful.
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A cartoony battle between Highbrow and Lowbrow as depicted in the delightful graphic novelette The Book Fight which presents an imaginary literary battle between genres – a tongue in cheek ...
Leonora Carrington. Self-portrait, c.1937–38. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection, 2002 © 2022 Estate of Leonora Carrington / Artists Rights Society (ARS), ...
“Hackney Kisses” is a series of graffitied wedding photographs.
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For me, the colony of lights that speckle the midnight city is always preferable to the monarchic blaze of the summer sky.
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An interview with Lior Elefant, head of the Israeli Women in Film and Television Forum, and Program Director of the Israeli film festival, Lethal Lesbian.
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Most alcoholics can say “been there, done that” on far too many of these scenarios, so in recovery there’s as much laughter as tears at our common stories… ...
The experience is not unlike standing at Times Square at night, but the honks of the city are replaced by a classical music track, and fewer people mull around gaping ...
The ongoing project, “Where Are We Now”, is a series of linoleum cut prints in comic strip format in two matrixes, one in a comic-strip style and another in repetition of the ...
This work seeks truth through the methodical manipulation of a set number of variables and explores the anxieties created by subtle shifts in presentations of the same pieces of information. ...
Trump in Black and White is a collection of one hundred of the many, many statements he made pre- and post-election. This is the POTUS’s actual voice taken from speeches, ...
For me, any mention of Ghana – particularly pre-1957 – takes me back to the home I grew up in, where parental reminiscences of what I as a child thought ...
Prostitutes, Politicians, Profiteers is the first UK exhibition of George Grosz – savage lampooner of Weimar Berlin’s monstrous excess – since 1997. Lauren Van Schaik Smith went along. ...
Ellie Broughton interviews US artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson, who has two pieces on display at Ambika P3 as part of the exhibition CASEBOOKS.
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Don’t be fooled by the red banners and the iconic agitprop: this exhibition is more of an ossuary for failed utopias than a May Day parade. ...
Skye Arundhati Thomas discusses Indian art and architecture’s ongoing grapple with the modern.
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Nash’s hauntingly powerful images emerge from – not in spite of – his fractious relationship with modernity.
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The intoxicating Thick Time is the South African artist’s first major UK exhibition for 15 years.
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When I’ve walked away from all the images of massacres and witches, bandits and clashing armies and lunatics, and when the pictures of kings and gods have faded away, the ...
This exploration of Victorian responses to the telegraph is wonderfully thought-provoking, writes Eleanor Franzén.
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