A robotic persona who painted by numbers, anticipated the Internet and annoyed Rauschenberg: Tate Liverpool assistant curator Stephanie Straine gets to grips with Andy Warhol through a major exhibition of his work, and finds that...
As Sam Belinfante’s Hayward Touring exhibition Listening travels to The Bluecoat, C. James Fagan ponders the differences between ‘hearing’ and ‘listening’ in the context of our contemporary lifestyles… Since the human race emerged,...
We may not have a glitzy ceremony, but we do have an esteemed panel of judges. All year, our critics have been travelling the length and breadth of Britain, witnessing the best contemporary (and classic)...
“He went to bed and bound his head with vinegar and brown paper…” C. James Fagan finds nursery rhymes, alchemy and transformation powering the heart of the Bluecoat’s Art of the Lived Experiment exhibition… For a...
Tate Liverpool’s interim Head of Exhibitions and Displays, Tamsin Dillon, gives her take on the ‘concentric process’ of The Serving Library’s commissioned cultural bulletins… An airbrush portrait of Wyndham Lewis by Chris Evans; a photograph of...
What does Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable have to do with cinema? And how do you design an international art magazine? We pick five of the best upcoming talks and tours at Tate...
Barbara Kruger and Cindy Sherman were her peers, but little is known about multimedia artist Gretchen Bender. C. James Fagan visits a new retrospective at Tate Liverpool to explore Bender’s backlash against “immoral consumerism”… Plato...
Just who do artists make work for anyway? In an extension of his essay on visitor experience, Biennial 2014: The Space In Between, C James Fagan considers the impact of the white cube...
C James Fagan throws the rule book out of the window for his interview with Syndrome’s latest resident artist, poet, performer, and muse, S. J. Fowler… Syndrome is an event; it is a...