Do you ever read a critique of a painting that you don’t agree with? Of course we all do. A recent review of The Stolen Kiss by Jean Honore Fragonard in the UK’s Independent bothered… “The Stolen Kiss”: depicting violence against women
Art of England has published a short piece of mine on older, and late-blooming artists. Art of England, issue number 64.
The September issue of Frieze art magazine is all about ‘theory’ or what appears to pass for theory in the art world. The whole issue reads like some undergraduate magazine or papers prepared by graduate… Physics Envy: or why art theory isn’t
“Tu m’” by Marcel Duchamp is a good example of how this artist played with our sensibilities. Karl Gerstner, in his Puzzle Upon Puzzle, which examines Tu m’ in exquisite #161617233 / gettyimages.com detail is… Tu m’: me pense que…
Kodak has announed the end of production of Kodachrome film. Those who still use film will know Kodachrome film for the quality of the colour and indeed I suspect many of us used Kodachrome as… End of Kodachrome and a way of seeing the world
Image by nattu via Flickr The inmates have escaped again and flooded the world with another wind egg. Called ‘altermodernism’, a term as ugly as its definition, we are now to be persuaded that a… What is ‘altermodernism’?
Image via Wikipedia Should we see art history as linear, with the phases, fads and movements embedded in the moment, or can we continue to learn from them, revisit them over time. Indeed, can all… The arrow of time & art