How Government Cuts are Impacting Arts Education
There is a painting of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden hanging on the wall of a gallery; both are naked, save for a fig leaf. A small...
In Absentia: Body Politics in the Absence of Human Form
“When you look at the imprint of our image, it is us that you will see,” Saint Symeon said to a disciple in response to a priest asking...
The Absence of Polygnotos
Hellenistic art is defined by our academic fetishization of names. The summation of our Grecian canon relies much on the shadowy and, if...
Ride or Die: Skateboarding the National Gallery
From the standpoint of the mirror I discover my absence from the place where I am since I see myself over there. – Michel Foucault, Des...
A Divided History And Its Present: Hong Kong 1967/2017
Confrontation between rioters and the police during the 1967 Riot, 1967, Hong Kong. (Photo: 香港舊照片Old Hong Kong photo) Last year was the...
An Icon Reborn
‘An Icon Reborn’ the words stencilled onto hoarding near Blackwall Station. The Robin Hood Gardens estate in Poplar, East-London, was a...
Cucumbers, Coal and the Curriculum: The Oddities of Local Heritage
Illustration by Anna Seibæk Torp-Pedersen For the better part of my primary education our school trips would, invariably, be to the...
The Art of Destruction: Metzger, Matta-Clark and Bonvicini
In February 2001, the artist Michael Landy gathered together all his belongings, catalogued them and destroyed them. All 7,227 of his...
Returning to the Philippines: Medalla and I
Installation view, David Medalla, A Stitch in Time, 1968 – 2017. Viva Arte Viva, Arsenale, Venice Biennale, 13 May–26 November 2018....
OBJECT No. 2
Giorgio Vasari, The Lives of the Artists, 1568 Edition. We look at objects, write about them, talk about them, consume them. They are the...