Archive - Trebuchet

Architecture and Aesthetic Errors

29/05/2020

Modernist architecture, seen as art, falls into aesthetic error when it fails to address the nature of the lives encompassed by it....

A Very Queer Communion

29/05/2020

This charming and disarming homage to a unique figure provides a backbone to the kinds of invasive physical performance for which Ron Athey is best known....

Kent Monkman Apologises for Controversial Justin Trudeau Painting

27/05/2020

Following outcries against the work on social media, the Cree artist says that the image 'failed' in its message to address the victimisation of indigenous women....

© Nicola Anthony, The Flow of Time, 2017

Surviving Lockdown: Daryl Goh on Self-Judgement

27/05/2020

Up next in the series, Nicola Anthony examines guilt, and how artists can objectively evaluate their own work whilst ignoring the niggling voice of self-judgement. ...

Gorillaz Celebrate 20-Year Visual History With Graphic Annual

26/05/2020

The Gorillaz Almanac, published by Z2 Comics, will feature 120-plus full-colour pages of Jamie Hewlett’s artwork for the band....

Black Sabbath: Walpurgis 1970

26/05/2020

Sabbath don’t care if it’s your soul He’s crying out for; just ‘give up the life before you met’ and yours is the moon, sun and stars. ...

UK’s Specialist Arts TV Channel Saved From the Chop

22/05/2020

Critics say the new strategy means BBC Four will become a home for repeats with less investment in arts programming....

Nevada Museum of Art Acquires Judy Chicago’s Full Fireworks Archive

20/05/2020

The archive contains thousands of photographs, digital images and other materials related to the artist-activist's site-specific works involving coloured smoke and fireworks from 1967 to the present....

Gorillas, Trains, Whips and Chains

20/05/2020

Barring no holds, Hollywood Bound is a well-curated, hilariously captioned collection of major-studio movie bondage that serves up equal helpings entertainment and old-Hollywood nostalgia. ...

UK Galleries Mount Virtual Shows on Lockdown Using New Digital Tool

19/05/2020

Art UK's Curations initiative enables 'anyone anywhere with internet access' to create an exhibition using the national image database....

His Holiness Blinded Me With Science

16/05/2020

If the viewer focuses intensely in The Dalai Lama: Scientist, such effort will be rewarded with insight, if not total consciousness…...

Submissions Open for Isolation Mastered

15/05/2020

A committee will make their selections based on whose work presents an innovative dialogue with this isolation period....

Blaxploitation and Black Beauty: Mickalene Thomas – beautés du mois

14/05/2020

This essay looks at the conception of black beauty in the 70s in terms of contemporary art. Mickalene Thomas' work draws upon popular culture and makes beautiful paintings from it....

Sixth Hong Kong Human Rights Arts Prize Awarded to Kam Wa Magus Yuen

12/05/2020

The still life brings to mind the civil unrest by the anti-extradition law amendment bill proposed by the Hong Kong government....

If the Lion Could Speak (…)

11/05/2020

This essay argues that animals are not so minded as to have language. Whilst they exhibit proto-typically linguistic calls, these never amount to exhibiting something like the structure of a language...

Tunnels of ĀH Menaces in a Deathless Mind

11/05/2020

Discordant industrial noise fractures into something new entirely, emphasising a rich, overwhelming soundscape....

We Are Nrvs: A View

07/05/2020

Audio visual resistance punk duo NRVS present their manifesto of digital primitivism. ...

Spaceship Hype: Global Stakes Trapped in Story

07/05/2020

Usually the truth is weirder than the hype, but in this case the truth is realer than the reality. Spaceship Earth a documentary on Biosphere 2....

Leading Writers Take Up ‘Darkness Residencies’ for Art Project

06/05/2020

Bernardine Evaristo, Max Porter and Raymond Antrobus rise to artist Sam Winston’s challenge in A Delicate Sight to submit to time in blackout....

Surviving Lockdown: Tabish Khan and the Inner Critic

06/05/2020

Part three explores the feelings of self-lambasting that many people experience when given the time and space to turn the critical eye upon their lives. ...

Cache of Russian Avant-Garde Works Surfaces in Basement

05/05/2020

Art historian Andrey Sarabyanov is planning a new exhibition of forgotten pieces by Kandinsky, Rodchenko and Stepanova....

Trebuchet Talks 9 – Dark Arts with Bobby Acharya

02/05/2020

A Podcast featuring an interview with Prof Bobby Acharya from King's College London on the 'Dark Sectors of the Universe'...

The Unnatural History Museum

01/05/2020

Where many other, more famous museums may pay a nod here and there to the strange, the Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities is devoted to it....

Surviving Lockdown: What Do We Surround Ourselves With?

30/04/2020

The next instalment in our series of interviews to pick up tips from the arts to help get through this unusual period....

Punk Rock Fight Club: The Beat Down at CBGB

29/04/2020

Anarchy is a return to the natural order. Might makes right. If you are a punk in the pit, you might get hit. ...

© Nicola Anthony, Poetry Net Series, 2019

Surviving Lockdown: Behind the Scenes in the Art Studio

29/04/2020

A series of video interviews with figures from the art world explores transferrable skills from the arts to help survive these out-of-the-ordinary times. ...

Revealing the Creative World of the City of London

25/04/2020

A photography commission goes behind the scenes across the City of London to reveal its untold stories, hidden gems, and undiscovered creative champions....

Whitechapel Gallery Launches Artists’ Film International Programme

25/04/2020

Language is the common theme for this year's AFI programme, with every artist's film using language to intensify place. ...

Earth Day Prompts First Ever Global Stealth Street Art Event

25/04/2020

For the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, more than 500 artists bring passion and protest to the first ever global stealth street art event....

UK Science Museum Group Building Coronavirus Collection

25/04/2020

Curators are amassing material and considering how to “collect important objects on behalf of the nation as a record of the medical, scientific and cultural responses to the outbreak”....

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