The Raft of Medusa
The extraordinary story behind the Raft of Medusa, the painting of hope that can give us hope
Read More The Raft of MedusaArt and Culture
The extraordinary story behind the Raft of Medusa, the painting of hope that can give us hope
Read More The Raft of MedusaThat a world exists independent of human thought is an assumption that has been notoriously hard to prove
Read More The Universe in a Nutshell: A Simple Guide to Speculative Realism*Conservative politics hasn’t changed much in the past two thousand years.
Read More Conservative Politics in the Ancient WorldBill Hicks says, ‘If anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself.’ The audience laugh, but Hicks insists that the statement isn’t a joke.
Read More Marketing, Consciousness and EvilA kaleidoscopic journey through the minds of forty-six untrained artists, all of whom happen to be attendees of Japanese welfare centres.
Read More Souzou 想像: Outsider Art from JapanOf the many Warholisms, the one that rings most true in his film output is “the idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting”, since there’s never really any action to come.
Read More Warhol’s Featureless FilmsFrom lurid abstracts to high postmodernism, Lichtenstein’s career demonstrates that persistence beats talent.
Read More Lichtenstein: mediocrity, ambition and innovationSensory investigations into the power of light
Read More The Light Show, Hayward GalleryRubens’s gigantic masterpiece loudly contradicts the folkloric silent night.
Read More Unsilent Night: The Adoration of the Magi by RubensPartially naked warlocks wearing coned hats levitate in the night sky clutching a naked man struggling against them, two appear to be biting him. Immediately below them a man with his head covered in a blanket stumbles forward with his arms out, he holds his thumbs in his clenched fingers in a gesture of figo […]
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