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Two Exhibition-Related Films by Jef Cornelis: Landmark Exhibitions Issue
This discussion of two films made for television in 1971 by Flemish filmmaker Jef Cornelis brings into relief an underlying …
The Psychiatric Sublime: The Sublime Object
This paper examines images relating to therapies for mental illness in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Seeking to …
What Is To Be Done, Sandra? Learning in Cultural Institutions of the Twenty-First Century
This article explores the difference between learning and education within the context of contemporary cultural institutions. It discusses current theory …
An Alternative National Gallery: Blake’s 1809 Exhibition and the Attack on Evangelical Culture
This essay suggests that Blake’s 1809 exhibition was haunted by the memory of the Irish painter James Barry (1741–1806) and …
Ideas in Transmission: LeWitt’s Wall Drawings and the Question of Medium
This article considers Sol LeWitt’s wall drawings as artworks poised on the cusp of the ‘post-medium condition’ of installation art. …
Liubov Popova: From Painting to Textile Design
In 1923 the painter Liubov Popova began creating designs for fabric to be manufactured by the First State Textile Printing …
Reasoned Exhibitions: Blake in 1809 and Reynolds in 1813
This paper considers Blake’s 1809 exhibition in the light of the nascent practice of retrospective exhibitions and compares it with …
Surviving Reality: Lee Bontecou’s Worldscapes
This article focuses on American artist Lee Bonteco’s drawing practice during the early 1960s, focusing in particular on Drawing 1961. …
Guided Freedom: Aesthetics, Tutelage, and the Interpretation of Art
This paper examines the operations of post-Kantian aesthetic discourses as parts of cultural technologies that induct individuals into particular kinds …
‘Palpable and Mute as a Globed Fruit’
This paper considers a series of fundamental problems and paradoxes in accounting for interpretation in contemporary museum encounters, and explores …
Tate Social Media Communication Strategy 2011–12
This report provides an overview of °Õ²¹³Ù±ð’s Social Media Communication Strategy, outlining the key objectives for each of its social …
What if Art Desires to be Interpreted? Remodelling Interpretation after the ‘Encounter-Event’
Taking up analytical theorist and painter Bracha Ettinger’s argument that it is the destiny and desire of artworks to be …
Parallel Systems: Lawrence Alloway and Eduardo Paolozzi
This essay plots the shared intellectual concerns of the critic Lawrence Alloway and the artist Eduardo Paolozzi, focusing on their …
Wavelength: On Drawing and Sound in the Work of Trisha Donnelly: Involuntary Drawing
This article considers the relationship between drawing and sound in the work of American artist Trisha Donnelly (born 1974). Against …
Memory and the Aesthetics of Military Experience: Viewing the Landscape of the Anglo-Mysore Wars
Examining landscape imagery produced after the third Anglo-Mysore War (1789–92), Rosie Dias argues that these works oscillated between memorialisation, personal …
‘New Ways of Modern Bohemia’: Edward Burra in London, Paris, Marseilles and Harlem: Rothenstein Lecture
Paying close attention to Edward Burra’s letters, scrapbooks and other archival material, Andrew Stephenson reveals the impact that the cosmopolitan …
The Libidinal Archive: A Conversation with Akram Zaatari
In this interview the Lebanese artist Akram Zaatari discusses his  major works of the last fifteen years, addressing some of …
Who Will Sing the Song? Learning Beyond Institutional Critique
This essay addresses institutional critique in relation to learning in the art museum. It aims to introduce an alternative approach …
Mira Schendel’s Gesture: On Art in Vilém Flusser’s Thought, with ‘Mira Schendel’ by Flusser
In his theory of communication, philosopher and writer Vilém Flusser (1920–1991) referred to art often, yet unsystematically. This article proposes …
Paolozzi’s Pop New Brutalist World: Rothenstein Lecture
In its engagement with mass media and modern industry, the work of Eduardo Paolozzi combined pop tendencies with the logic …