Who shapes the future of contemporary art? Polly Checkland Harding considers the skill of predicting the next big thing at Castlefield Gallery’s anniversary exhibition… Look back at photographs of Sensation, the Saatchi Gallery’s controversial exhibition...
Visiting Cian Quayle’s retrospective Points Of Departure at the Grosvenor Museum, Stephen Clarke finds a photographer enamoured with the call of the sea… The coastline delineates the familiar from the unknown; possessing a...
TDN photographer Pete Goodbody rounds up a turbulent (and at times bizarre) 2014 with some of his favourite shots… The brief: ten photos to illustrate the year and I get to curate the...
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)...
Visually overwhelming, disjointed and contrived: Laura Harris gets to grips with Jeremy Deller’s homage to the giants of printing at Modern Art Oxford… Anyone who has been following Jeremy Deller’s work will already...
Broken Britain, corruption and social polemics: sound familiar? Joshua Potts finds that a timely adaptation of Henry IV remains Shakespeare‘s most humanistic dissection of rulers and state… The kingdom is sick. There is a war...
“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...
Psychogeography is more than the psychological effects of the urban environment, argues Maisie Ridgway. Here, she explains why the movement has become a political statement, a seizure of power and a joyous mode of play and discovery…...
There hasn’t been a trade union for artists in England since 1984. Launched this year, Artists’ Union England is promising to address issues around working conditions and pay in the art world. Here,...