Lizzie Baxter searches for beauty in the grotesque.
Art
Percent
March 19, 2012
Dan Cave takes a stand against the apparent willingness to reduce funding for the arts.
Incongruity
June 26, 2011
Odd Future. Two words that have hipsters, fanboys and critics entering into their favoured mode of reaction.
Atrophy
June 26, 2011
‘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 [...]
Wanted
June 26, 2011
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 [...]
Miranda Larbi’s Eco-Wardrobe
March 11, 2011
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 [...]
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