Cian Quayle inspects the home footage, black and white photography and hand-drawn maps that embody Stephen Clarke’s personal, family-orientated homage to seaside towns… Stephen Clarke has recently published a series of three books with...
Jack Roe finds that a new interpretation of Homer’s classic is intriguing and completely baffling in equal measure, leaving the audience as lost as poor Odysseus… A night at the theatre is never an...
By mapping the contours of something so commonplace as a junk email, Orla Foster discovers, artists Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige remind us of the hidden depths that may be beneath the surface of any...
Kat Houghton explores a vibrant collection of films that depict the people caught in the midst of political change; from the handover of Hong Kong to the Scottish Referendum… This time last year, Chinese...
Maggie Matić meets the women behind Clam Jam — ‘An exhibition of female art’ — to grill them about angering feminists, playing on cliché, and battling a persistent gender imbalance in the contemporary art world… The...
As questions about contemporary art education abound — from the Houses of Parliament to artists’ studios — Liz Mitchell asked key art school representatives across the UK what they thought. The response was an unexpectedly impassioned debate, centred...
Watch how our #BeACritic campaign has impacted aspiring arts writers so far… Earlier last year, our #BeACritic project saw the Royal Academy’s Tim Marlow travel to Liverpool to share invaluable advice with 15 aspiring...
As we say goodbye to Brian Sewell, Laura Harris asks what it means to be a critic: from the pages of first century literary criticism, to the pages of 21st century newspapers… Brian Sewell...
Amy Thomas visits the festival unifying artists all over the Cumbrian countryside — to sell art, meet tourists and showcase an extraordinary landscape… For two weeks this September, Cumbria is opening its doors...