Face Value, the National Portrait Gallery’s exhibition of twelve pastel portraits by Bob Dylan, is neither a sublime manifestation of a poet’s genius nor an offensive lowering of standards at ...
Has utopianism become less ambitious? The artists assembled for Whitechapel Gallery’s The Spirit of Utopia favour humbler community projects over sweeping plans for a new social order. Marianne Templeton investigates… ...
We reached an understanding as I stared into one of Turner’s stormier seascapes. You came up behind me, tucked two icy fingers into the soft warmth at the inside of ...
Sam Dodson ponders why we are so stung when the truths revealed in a celebrity memoir turn out to be lies. Conversely, why do we willingly watch, read and engage ...
With every sequel, with every repetition of form and the creation of tropes, our ability to find a little mystery we can relate to disappears.We begin to know what a ...
One of the most resonating questions I was left pondering over was of representation. In many respects the contemplations of death, the associated images, the rituals and ceremonies built around ...
Cities are challenging: to live in and to define. They are each a unique life form constructed from many smaller ones. For some they are amazing, baffling or frustrating, particularly ...
