Jennet Thomas transports C. James Fagan back to the Thatcher years: a time of nuclear scares, managed decline and milk snatching… Thatcher! Thatcher! Milk snatcher! This chant has resonance with me, as Margaret...
What makes a pop culture icon? Mike Pinnington on the serendipity of Robert Longo’s most influential – and most imitated – work… Walking past Untitled (Joe) 1981 as it was being installed on the second floor of Tate Liverpool,...
On display as part of Tate Liverpool’s current exhibition An Imagined Museum, C. James Fagan analyses the dreamlike, uneasy quality of Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Still #48… The 20th century was one of...
Lesley Taker is led to a secret location to encounter live surveillance, George Orwell and an exploration of our mediated existence… A Friday afternoon, straight from the office with a very busy brain, seems to...
Watch artists, activists, designers, filmmakers, writers and cultural instigators – including our editor — talk about their work, origins and motivations… Our editor Laura Robertson recently travelled to Hull to reflect on her own experiences...
Watch the Royal Academy director discuss key art movements that have shaped his personal view of — and dedication to — the arts… “The spiritual dimension in art is much broader, more nebulous,...
Haroon Mirza secured his first solo exhibition in Korea thanks to winning the Nam June Paik Art Center Prize. As the show comes to a close, jury member Mike Stubbs reflects on why he won,...
Calling all artists! Chinese curator and TDN journalist Joe Zhu is looking to exhibit your ‘Lucky Bags’; that is, original art that is sent through the post and sold — unopened — to a...
With very little writing accompanying the photographic essays of Preston is my Paris (PPP), we are left with only the semiotics of images and imagined narratives. Here, Ruth White interprets the publications’ underlying political and social significance…...