Lizzie Baxter searches for beauty in the grotesque.
Dan Cave takes a stand against the apparent willingness to reduce funding for the arts.
Odd Future. Two words that have hipsters, fanboys and critics entering into their favoured mode of reaction.
‘A Rainbow Nation’: the famous words used by Archbishop Desmond Tutu to describe the unity of races and merging of cultures in post-apartheid South Africa after the 1994 election. The V & A strives to represent this rainbow nation in their new exhibition Figures and Fictions: exhibiting a selection of contemporary South African photography, these [...]
The Chinese media calls him “a deviant and a plagiarist”. This is a far cry from Ai Weiwei’s prominence as one of China’s leading artists, who helped design the famous Bird’s Nest, Beijing’s national stadium for the 2008 Olympics. The conceptual artist has been a key figure in China’s contemporary art scene, producing cross-cultural projects [...]
We live in a fast world. And by fast, I mean concord speed. No need for hand-written letters when we have access to emails at the click of a button. No need to wait weeks for photos to be developed, when war correspondents and fashion journalists alike can snap away on the front line and [...]