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The Purloined Landscape: Photography and Power in the American West
John Beck argues that Edgar Allan Poe’s story ‘The Purloined Letter’ (1844) about a secret hidden in plain sight offers …
Adam: An Early Exhibition and Ownership History
In Focus project on Adam (1951, 1952) by Barnett Newman, authored by Michael Schreyach with contributions by Michael Leja and …
Designing an archive digitisation project
From planning to delivery and all that's in between
To the rescue of civilisation man: Kenneth Clark: Looking for Civilisation
In his day Kenneth Clark was an influential patron, art historian, collector, gallery director and broadcaster - and one of …
‘Marx on the Wall’: Muralism and Anglo-American Exchange during the 1930s
This article explores English artists’ support for socially engaged public mural painting during the 1930s in relation to international developments, …
Blurred Lines: Art, Activism, Popular Culture and Social change
This research paper highlights some of the core issues related to funding structures available for socially engaged practices in India, …
Hello from ‘Sleepy’: Document: Mondrian in London
The Dutch painter Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) is regarded as one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. His …
I’ll Show You Mine, If You Show Me Yours: Collaboration, Consciousness-Raising and Feminist-Influenced Art in the 1970s
This paper discusses two feminist-influenced collaborative art projects: London/LA Lab 1981 and Postal Art Event 1975–7. It reflects on how …
Landmarks Coursework Guide
From art about landmarks to art that is itself a landmark: get some inspiration on the theme of landmarks
Hyundai Commission:: Cecilia Vicuña: Brain Forest Quipu
Delve deeper into the 2022 Turbine Hall commission
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, …
AAAARGH!: John Martin I
John Martin is best known for his dramatic scenes of apocalyptic destruction and biblical catastrophe. During his life his work …
The Geometry of Syntactics, Semantics and Pragmatics: Anthony Hill’s Concrete Paintings
Between 1952 and 1956, the British artist Anthony Hill made a small number of abstract, concrete paintings before turning away …
Modigliani’s Painted Nudes: A Technical Study
This article is part of an ongoing research project into Modigliani’s nude portraits that began on the occasion of a …
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. …
Whatever Happened to the Frontier? Performing Provincialism in Post-War Los Angeles
During the 1950s and 1960s, critics writing about art on America’s West Coast often treated it as provincial. At the …
Richard Bell’s Embassy: Reshaping the Contemporary Art Museum
This article explores how some of the key discourses of the contemporary art museum may be apprehended and reframed from …
Turn left for the revolution: Art Turning Left at Tate Liverpool
When Jacques-Louis David allowed his famous painting The Death of Marat 1793–4 to be used in support of the Republican …
‘Everything Was Getting Smashed’: Three Case Studies of Play and Participation, 1965–71
In this essay Hilary Floe considers instances of chaotic ‘over-participation’ in three art exhibitions that took place between 1965 and …