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Johns and Cunningham: Dancing on a Plane
Dalston, Then and Now: An Interview with John Smith
Anti-Photojournalism: Working Against the Grain
The legacy of a myth maker: Joseph Beuys
Joseph Beuys is considered by some as the most important of the post-war period – a sculptor, performance artist, teacher …
Judd through Oldenburg
In his critical writing on Claes Oldenburg during the 1960s Donald Judd explained how emotional content might be conveyed through …
‘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, …
Thomas Guest and Paul Nash in Wiltshire: Two Episodes in the Artistic Approach to British Antiquity
The artistic representation of British antiquity brings in its wake a problem of methodology: how are the working assumptions of …
Workshops and conferences
Read information about the workshops hosted by the Refiguring American Art project and abstracts from the major international conference held …
The Aesthetics of Collaboration: Complicity and Conversion at MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies
This essay uses new archival sources to reconstruct the aesthetics – and ethics – of collaboration at Gyorgy Kepes’s Center …
The Art of Hip Hop
What happens when hip hop culture and the art world collide?
Billboards in Space
Beuys is Dead: Long Live Beuys! Characterising Volition, Longevity, and Decision-Making in the Work of Joseph Beuys
Joseph Beuys’s use of unconventional materials, such as felt, wax, and fat, characterise his artworks. Whilst museums strive to obtain …
Towards Anarchitecture: Gordon Matta-Clark and Le Corbusier
Gordon Matta-Clark (1943–1978), who trained originally as an architect, is best known for his spectacular ‘building cuts’. These have often …
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 …
Image/ word: Poets and visual artists
Life Between Islands
Ahead of the opening of Tate Britain’s landmark exhibition Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 50s – Now, co-curators David …
Aleksandr Rodchenko’s Lines of Force
Rodchenko’s research into the concept of line was fundamental to the ambitions of Russian constructivism. Careful examination of his paintings …
Building and the Graphic Arts: Adrian Stokes at the ICA
Stephen Kite explores the relationship between architecture and the graphic arts in the milieus of the Institute of Contemporary Arts …
The Art of Comedy
Is it okay to laugh in galleries and how have artists used humour in their work?
John Constable and Paul Huet: Marsh and Flood
This paper revisits a familiar episode in accounts of John Constable’s career – his reception and legacy in France. Paul …