The Human-Divine: Julene Robinson’s The Night Woman
By Maria Cicala Below the basement of the Barbican Center is a small black box theatre where art manifests magic.From the 19th to the...
Why I am a Tracey Emin apologist.
By Lucas Ind Look, I get it, she’s not to everyone’s taste. In fact, I remember when I first joined The Courtauld, I chose Tracey Emin’s...
Inside the Video, Into the Screen: Horror and the Internet Wormhole
By Eve Reid The nomenclature ‘video nasty,’ once reserved for violent and explicit films, struggles to find definition in the digital...
The Fitzroy Tavern; or, the Birth of a British Bohemia
By Benjamin Baker ‘Only beware of Fitzrovia … it is a dangerous place, you must be careful.’ ‘Fights with knives?’ ‘No, a worse danger....
Adolf Wölfli, William Blake and Folk Art: A Brief Meditation on Human Creativity.
By Carys Maloney Adolf Wölfli was an outsider artist—or folk artist—who inarguably suffered a childhood of significant hardship. As...
My First Experience of Volunteering at Somerset House and the Story of an Architectural Casualty
By Freddie Bond I had my first Courtauld volunteering shift last week. The wealth of images and information in the collections stored...