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...
Contemporary Chinese Performance Art: An Interview with Yingmei Duan
Yingmei Duan (b. 1969) left her home country China in 1998, after being a member of the underground Beijing East Village group between...
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...
Food: Heritage and Evolution
Illustration by Anna Seibæk Torp-Pedersen Cuisine is central to the heritage of many people across the world, who draw on national, local...
The Mind and Practise of Michael Felber
Arctic Father - 22.5” x 30”, colored pencil on paper Since the beginning of the new year I have had the pleasure of engaging in a regular...
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....
20 Portman Square, Somerset House: The Buildings of The Courtauld. An Interview with Anthony Robins
Illustration by Tessa Carr Walking into Somerset House for each visit to the library, for each lecture or class, I am constantly grateful...
The Great Spectacle
Thomas Rowlandson and Augustus Charles Pugin, ‘Exhibition Room, Somerset House,’ 1808. Engraving. (Image: Wikimedia commons) If we want...