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Head to Head: Climate Change – Can artists have any influence?
As the environment slides down the list of governmental priorities, JM Ledgard and Alastair Smart discuss whether artists can really …
Something supernatural, this way comes: Magic and Modernity in British Art
Folklore, mythology, mysticism and the occult pervade the development of modernism and Surrealism in Britain, especially in relation to the …
‘To the Abyss’: Process and Time
Modernists don't die in Ambleside: Schwitters in Britain at Tate Britain
Was this the same Kurt Schwitters, founder of Merz, collaborator with Dadaists, Cubists and Constructivists, who won first, second and …
Andy Warhol Now
Andy Warhol is remembered as the king of pop art who embraced celebrity and consumerism, and would become an American …
Listening for the Sublime: Aural-Visual Improvisations in Nineteenth-Century Musical Art
Music’s capacity to expose the contradictions which emerged within late nineteenth-century understandings of the sublime is explored in relation to …
Diffractive Analysis: Embodied Encounters in Contemporary Artistic Video Practice
This paper details how diffractive analysis, a practice-based research methodology combining methods from art practice, art history and cultural studies, …
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 …
Soul of a Nation: Artists’ Voices
Artists in the exhibition Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power talk about their work
Apprehensions: by Kevin Brazil
In his short life, Hamad Butt made art that explored scientific knowledge and our attempts to both rationalise the world …
Beuys’s Legacy in Artist-led University Projects
Joseph Beuys’s Free International University for Creativity and Interdisciplinary Research (FIU), established in the early 1970s, stands at the beginning …
Supporting learning and participation with archives
Reflecting on the role of outreach and reaching widened audiences
Lin Tianmiao 林天苗
In the early 1990s Lin Tianmiao (born 1961) returned to Beijing after several years in New York, and established herself …
Atomic Tourism and False Memories: Cai Guo-Qiang’s The Century with Mushroom Clouds: Art & Environment
Examining Cai Guo-Qiang’s photographic series The Century with Mushroom Clouds, Ben Tufnell explores the work’s connections to American land …
Lightning and Rain: Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis and Matisse’s Hand: Involuntary Drawing
A celebrated sequence of slow-motion footage of Matisse’s working hand fascinated philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty and psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. This paper …
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 …
Layered Land: Andy Goldsworthy at Yorkshire Sculpture Park: Art & Environment
Focusing on the long relationship Andy Goldsworthy has had with the landscape of the Bretton Estate, the location of Yorkshire …
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 …
Placing Bookmarks: The Institutionalisation and De-Institutionalisation of Hungarian Neo-Avant-Garde and Contemporary Art
The recent interest in avant-garde art from Hungary shown by international museums such as Tate has been paralleled by transformations …