With an acronym that sounds like a leading world power, UVA are due to take over The Curve gallery this Spring with their latest site-specific project. Well-known for their manipulation of space, light and sound, this new piece plays with the unique shape of the Barbican’s temporary exhibition gallery to…
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Ever felt like all art is a one-direction monologue, asking nothing but brain freeze from its viewer? Artist Hannah Millest certainly has. Some time back she developed an interactive art piece that dragged the viewer out of its passive slumber and forced us back into the driving seat: the artwork,…
The eccentricities and outrageous wardrobe of the fashion patron Isabella Blow is the latest addition to the fashion exhibition trend this November. A truly unique character, Blow was adored and revered by her peers from Philip Treacy to Daphne Guinness and Rupert Everett. Famed for being a nurturer of emerging…
I’ve never forgotten Kara Walker’s art. I was in the Tate Liverpool when I first saw one of her room-sized tableaux. It was a large room with white walls, covered in black cut-out silhouettes: a powerful and instantly recognisable style of antebellum stereotypes. Her depiction of mammies and masters arranged…
Drugs have been synonymous with artists for as long as history remembers. Whether their motivation to indulge in narcotics was for other worldly ideas, a kick from the mainstream or the over-egged sentimentality of escapism for a soul too sensitive for this world, the experience of altered states has been…
Although this may jeopardise my entire person, relationships and any respect I had earned from my peers, I am going to use it. That’s right, I urge thee to Keep Calm and head to the British Library …to find out why there is a million and one things emblazoned with this…