In light of a new stage adaptation, Fred Johnson analyses present day surveillance and proposes that the reality isn’t as awful as Orwell made it out to be… George Orwell’s novel 1984, first published in 1949,...
Art fair novice and Fine Art student Maja Lorkowska asks: what makes art ‘sellable’? And does that make it great art? As an art fair novice, I felt my way carefully through The...
Photographer Peter Goodbody walks us through his Venice Biennale… starting with Alexandra Pirici and Manuel Pelmuş’ performative celebration of the biennale (above), The Romanian Pavilion Above: Sailing under The Bridge of Sighs Il Palazzo...
Peter Goodbody extols the virtues of tea as the perfect way to enjoy the world’s oldest arts festival… Most things are made better by a nice cup of tea, even riots and invasions...
What is at play in the mind of the live art critic? C James Fagan explores the realities of reporting on the genre… I’ve been going to and writing about performance and live...
The current exhibition at the Open Eye Gallery is challenging and insightful in its questioning of war… To an outsider at least, the motivations and intent of a combat photographer can be hard...
Whether entertainment or strictly business, art fairs can present real opportunities. But where to start? We ask the people who know best… If you’ve been living on the moon you might not have noticed...
We visit an exhibition filled with harrowing and complex themes, delivered in a simple, powerful manner… “Since 1993, 14,525 murders have been committed in Ciudad Juárez bordering on the United States, of which 1,248...
Having left the South Bank’s Hayward Gallery, Emma Sumner spoke to Richard Parry about his new role as curator, at Blackpool’s Grundy Art Gallery… Richard Parry has worked on major exhibitions, including Tracey...