

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...


That sinking feeling: Brexit and the Titanic
Dear reader, welcome to the first of what will hopefully be many weekly columns here at the Courtauldian. I am Morgan Haigh, a...


CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - THE COURTAULDIAN ISSUE 19
The time has come – we are now accepting submissions for the first printed issue of the Courtauldian of the 2018/2019 academic year! As...


#MeToo: Depictions of Doom at Frieze 2018
Laurie Anderson, Frieze Talks, Frieze London 2018 (Photo by Linda Nylind) Frieze London 2018 has been labelled the ‘#MeToo art fair’ for...


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...


