In his 2020 Aperture article on ‘The Black Fantastic’, Ekow Eshun used a definition of the fantastic created by the scholar Rosemary Jackson which, “has to do with inverting elements of this world, re-combining its constitutive features in new relations to produce...
Life Between Islands is a landmark exhibition at Tate Britain exploring the extraordinary breadth of Caribbean-British art over four generations. It will be the first time a major national museum has told this story in-depth, showcasing 70 years of culture,...
Earlier this year I wrote an article about the extent to which artworks in the UK by émigré artists are- under threat, with some requiring urgent restoration and others in buildings that have been closed. Ilona Bossanyi, granddaughter of the Hungarian stained glass...
Yorkshire Sculpture Park is open again for business, and it is so good to revisit it. The great news is many of its temporary shows have been extended, like Joana Vasconcelos' Beyond (till January 2022). Recently the stunning ‘399 Days', by Rachel Kneebone, once at...
How to celebrate the continuing vital and sacrificial contribution of key workers during the Covid-19 pandemic? Clap for Carers united the nation early on in lockdown but was thought to have become politicised and was vulnerable to the criticism that it distracted...
Whilst I will refrain from touting out the current word de jour again, the new normal, it's hard not to feel the paradigm shift between our feet. I don't know if I am wearing ice skates or roller blades if you know what I mean. Thankfully in this parish & in the...
On the occasion of Arnulf Rainer celebrating his 90th birthday, the Albertina Museum is presenting a selection of his works from its extensive holdings. The exhibition draws an arc from important early works to his photographs and reworked photographs of the 1960s and...
Art and science are ‘human efforts to comprehend and describe the world around us and our experience of it'. The one ‘searches for truth in subjective experience and the other in objective reality.’ Julius Colwyn describes the differing approaches to truth of art and...
The church of the ever open door (St Martin-in-the-Fields) has just received 10 painted doors as part of A Year Outdoors, an initiative by conceptual artist Beau to raise awareness of the increase in the numbers of street homeless throughout the UK. To Beau, a front...