Does art transcend social media? Does it have more influence than the influencer? We discuss influencer culture in the visual arts, identity and more. Read here →
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Curation is everywhere. Instagram feeds, window displays, hair styles, salads – but who gets to curate culture? With the release of the National Recovery Fund we look at the impact of the governments choices have on the wider story of contemporary British culture. Read here →
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Instagram may well have become an necessary evil - but as an artist, to what extent are you conscious of how much time you spend snapping, documenting and posting? Perhaps some balance could be useful in 2021
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Planning a staycation this year? The Gairloch Museum, is based in the North West of Scotland. Once a nuclear bunker, this stark and deceptively simple concrete block of building has undergone a transformation. After 8 years of planning and plenty of help from the local community, the disused bunker now throws open its doors as a museum and art exhibition space
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Will British Museums Be Selling Their Artwork? It was recently reported that the Royal Academy in London was mulling whether to sell its prize piece (Michelangelo’s Taddei Tondo). In conversation with Alistair Brown, a spokesperson for the Museums Association, we dig deeper in the deaccessioning in the UK
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Despite all the economic doom and gloom, the prices of art appear to just keep rising. This year, a Francis Bacon painting sold for $84.6m at Sotheby’s, in a new format online sale, showing that people out there are still willing to buy big. But is following what the 1%, do the right approach? For many younger collectors, there’s more joy, financial access, status merit in collecting living, emerging artists alternatives. Read more →
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Community, collaboration, and compassion are at the heart of this project. The pandemic has pulled hundreds of thousands of people into poverty: food bank data reports exceptional spikes in demand, with unprecedented numbers of people facing food poverty. Through creative collaboration, London-based artists are joining forces to bring food to the doors of the North Kensington, London
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COVID-19 has certainly changed the way we experience gallery visits, but it will take more than fogged-up glasses and hand sanitiser to ruin a great exhibition...
*NOW* a major showcase of Katie Paterson's work, is the perfect escape from the maddening existence that the pandemic has forced us in to. Read Here →
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Virginia Wolf once said, "Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?" In the lead up to artist Charlotte Hicks latest exhibition Egg Woke, we sat down with her and discuss just that question, to unpick why in this social climate woke culture and feminism is so frequently misappropriated
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A public sculpture was in the headlines again – the end product of a long campaign to erect a statue in celebration of Mary Wollstonecraft, the author of proto-feminist text A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, who died in 1797. Read here →
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The 2020 Taipei Biennial is a commentary on the 'increasing disagreement on how to keep the world inhabitable' as curators Bruno Latour and Martin Guinard explain. How to agree on a future, when the present diverges in political opinions and acceptance of geology and ecology?
The curators invite us to reflect on these questions whilst navigating a fictional planetarium in the form of an exhibition at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum.
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We spoke to artist Caroline Jane Harris about her latest body of work for her solo exhibition at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin, and its engagement with the distortion of time and space through the physical separation of individual moments. Read here →
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The Scottish Government sets a legally-binding target to cut greenhouse gas emissions by net zero by 2045, but how does this affect the arts? Read here →
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When was the last time you had a painkiller? Did you know the use of opioid drugs (aka painkillers) has claimed more than 400,000 lives in the US since 1999? Do you think art institutions should be responsible for the moral integrity of the companies that gift donations?
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How would you photograph or paint your mother? Caroline Walker’s first solo exhibition with Ingleby Gallery is of her mother Janet, who features in each of an impressive series of oil paintings. Read exhibition review here →
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"History takes a linear route, but when you pull history into an art project, the art refracts: these dishes became a catalyst to go somewhere else" explains artist Morwenna Kearsley on her current solo exhibition at the CCA, Glasgow
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The relentless pressure and pace of our capitalist reality means that most of us have become accustomed to moving through life at a hundred miles per hour. But perhaps being slow is perhaps more about reflection than stasis. Read article here →
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Based in Rizal, Philippines, Cian Dayrit is an artist and activist, whose practice is inspired by theories from counter-geography. In his work, he engages with land ownership and plunder and is embedded in the history of the Philippines. Read article here
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What is to wander with no purpose? Will our relationship with crowds change as we move to a different lifestyle? Will joining the crowd ever feel the same again? Read article on ArtThou, Re-evaluating the crowd. Words by Alice Keeling
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Online Art Sales continue to grow across the industry. But whats changing? Can the larger incumbent of the art world adopt? What does it mean for the humble art buyer, millennial collectors and enthusiasts? We digest the 2020 Hiscox Report on the online art market.
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During the summer of COVID-19, it seemed like physical experiences of art were put on hold, with most engagement remaining online. Yet, in the midst of it all, the Glasgow-based artist David Sherry carried out a series of performances right in the middle of the High Street
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