

A Victorious Protégé
One hundred years after their deaths in 1918, some one hundred drawings by the Austrian artists Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele from...


The “ubiquitous” interactive medium and the radically innovative art form: Videogames: Design/Play/D
What comes to your mind when you think of videogames? If you are a so-called ‘hardcore gamer’ or a game enthusiast, games are...


A rare, beautiful stasis: Steve McQueen’s Widows
Widows grabs you. It puts you deep into the tight streets of Chicago and paints an image of struggle and poverty sandwiched against...


The Importance of Ambitious Political Rhetoric: The West Wing, Season One - A Review
It is not often one is able to decipher why we are drawn to the things we are, but in cases like this, it is less important to consider...


Svetlana Kuznetsova: Reflections on Life in the USSR
Wandering around the Other Art Fair in early October, I am drawn to the macabre sculptures of Svetlana Kuznetsova. Delicate gems and...


Review: SURGE, the 13th East Wing Biennial
Hiroki Ishikawa, Sediment of a Day, 2018. (Image courtesy of EWB) For its thirteenth edition, SURGE, the East Wing Biennial has turned...


Brief Encounter at Empire Cinemas Haymarket
After recently experiencing the wonder that is The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk (Kneehigh’s latest show; now on tour), I was very excited to...


Victorian Giants: The Birth of Art Photography at the National Portrait Gallery
The Evening Sun (Iphigenia), c 1860, by Oscar Rejlander The Victorians lived in a world flooded with new optical instruments and...


‘KETTLE’S YARD, CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND, IS THE LOUVRE OF THE PEBBLE’ Ian Hamilton Finlay
Illustration by Tessa Carr Kettle’s Yard was created in 1956 by Jim and Helen Ede, it was their home. Jim a Tate curator and Helen an art...


Review of the Catalogue 'Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots'
Michael Fried’s essay, ‘Some new category’: Remarks on Several Black Pollocks featured in the catalogue of Tate Liverpool’s exhibition...