Oriel College in Oxford, the epicenter for recent student protests, has announced that they will remove the controversial statue of the racist/imperialist Cecil Rhodes. The governors of the Oxford University college voted on Wednesday night to relocate the statue of...
You are invited to vocalise your inner frustrations and power a large-scale light installation. With social distancing still in place and tensions continuing to rise, London-based artist Marcus Lyall has transformed a soon-to-be-demolished office block in London...
As a sculptor who has used Victorian and other found sculptures in my work for some time, the increasingly heated debate on the future of public Victorian statues, buildings and street names across the country has resonated with me. As a white British man, I am up...
Artworks acquire layers of meaning over time. André Daughtry's Weight is a video work from 2014 that attempts 'to visualise societal projections on the black male body'. The projections on the body in the film being once-popular family cartoons that crudely depict...
Usually, an article written by this author within this feature series would only be aiming for laughs, confusion and splashes of enlightenment. However, after my lengthy delay hoarding enough interviews for another offer, I am stumbling to eschew any turns of phrase...
Daata has launched a new public platform for galleries to showcase and sell video art online via the Daata website. We've always been committed to showcasing a broad and exciting range of digital artworks - David Gryn Galleries at Daata have curated a selection of...
Spring 2020 was to have been an appropriate season for the launch of one of the Camden Arts Centre’s most ambitious exhibitions to date. The Botanical Mind: Art, Mysticism and the Cosmic Tree is a major thematic group exhibition investigating the significance of the...
Here's a handsome new volume, well-illustrated, but more social history than art book, which tells of the emergence of London as an international art scene, during the years that followed World War II. Its subtitle is Art and Culture in the 1960s. Its weakness, if it...
Today sees the launch of the Sequested Prize, a new self-portrait group award launched during the time of COVID-19, designed to create a platform of recognition and support to those working to establish or continue their artistic practice. Co-founded by artist W. K....