It wasn't until 2012, on my first trip to Los Angeles, that I realised my distant childhood memories of the 1980s had been hijacked. As I strolled past faded neon signs and old motels on Sunset ...

I remember passing by the record shop on Grove Lane and I saw these two white guys on the other side asking people if they wanted to take their own photograph and get a free print. So I walked over ...

In March 2025, Tate Modern will stage the world premiere of Hagay Dreaming, a new performance by Shu Lea Cheang and Dondon Hounwn. Based on an old legend belonging to the Truku tribe of Taiwan, Hagay ...

Miss Alice Gostick was a teacher at Castleford Secondary School, which Moore attended between the ages of eleven and eighteen. A member of the Art Teachers’ Guild, Miss Gostick advocated a progressive ...

A variety of circumstances have led to artists being isolated from society. Depending on the situation, a time of solitude can be welcome or uninvited. Artists may have to adapt their ways of working ...

In 1886 the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche declared the sublime out of date. A number of artists of early and mid-twentieth century continued to engage with concepts of the sublime, though often in ...

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Contemporary artists have extended the vocabulary of the sublime by looking back to earlier traditions and by engaging with aspects of modern society. They have located the sublime in not only the ...

Fig.2 John Constable The Cornfield 1826 National Gallery, London Born into a prosperous family in the village of East Bergholt, Suffolk, Constable’s early display of aptitude and passion for painting ...

Suspended, collapsed, stacked, wrapped or folded, the works of Phyllida Barlow spring from an interrogation of some of the most fundamental aspects of sculpture: its physical attributes and its ...

This is one of four reports produced by researchers in the project Reshaping the Collectible: When Artworks Live in the Museum. Each offers a perspective from one of four practices that are changing ...

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