Author: Edward Winters

Ed studied painting at the Slade School of Fine Art and later wrote his PhD in Philosophy at UCL. He has written extensively on the visual arts and is presently writing a book on everyday aesthetics. He is an elected member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA). He taught at University of Westminster and at University of Kent and he continues to make art.

Mind Over Matter: Putting Thought in its Place

06/08/2018

Mind and Brain dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;W/dropcaphenever we think about thinking, we think about mind. It is a common commendation to say of someone that he or she has a good...

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Contemporary Artists’ Drawings at The Drawing Room

27/07/2018

dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;W/dropcaphy do drawings matter? Commenting on his education as an artist at The Slade School of Fine Art in the seventies, restaurant critic, tv...

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YZ: Street Artist Makes Image for New French Stamps

20/07/2018

President Macron has selected an image for a new set of French stamps designed by YZ, a Franco-British street artist whose work celebrates strong women....

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Of Art, Cultural Heritage, and Human Harm

19/07/2018

Should we risk lives to save cultural heritage? dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;O/dropcapn Tuesday 17th July 2018 Professor Derek Matravers gave his inaugural lecture, ‘Heritage in...

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Painting and Research in the University

12/07/2018

Jo Volley's 'Research Art' at Sassoon Gallery, Folkestone ...

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Evolution, Religion and Art

12/07/2018

Little has changed in the stand-off between religion and science, we might be tempted to think....

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The Unbearable Blindness of Theology and Science

05/07/2018

dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;F/dropcapurther to ‘Philosophy and the God of Bleak Things,’ the  abstracts of two new research papers appear in Improbable Research. The papers...

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Miyako Narita’s Photography at Flowers

03/07/2018

Miyako Narita works in fine art photography, video and music. Her photography was on show in Cork Street last week. Flowers Gallery held the 24th edition of Artist of the Day, a West End exhibition...

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Philosophy and The God of Bleak Things

01/07/2018

dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;A/dropcap Russian Oligarch has written a philosophy book he hopes will turn out to be a best seller, writes Matthew Moore, Media Correspondent in The...

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Ed Kienholz’ Early Work

14/06/2018

Ed Kienholz, Leda and the Canadian Honker, mixed media assemblage, 1957 dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;E/dropcapd Kienholz is an assemblage artist, an installation  artist, and a...

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Images in the Head

14/06/2018

The Beano, ‘Numskulls’ (c.1960) dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;A/dropcap famous philosopher told his infant daughter that the crocodile she had dreamt was in her head....

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Looking for the Next Generation

09/06/2018

It is the time of the season. The young ones are putting their artwork on show at the outset of what they hope will be a long and successful vocation as artists....

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Sci-Fi Politicism Meets Erudite Poetry

08/06/2018

dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;I/dropcapmagine another world in which extra-terrestrials roam or slide with their cyborg affiliates. Imagine their futuristic habitats, their disasters...

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An Explosion in the Hayward

07/06/2018

We are creatures. We flourish as bits of nature. However, it has been claimed that we survive our natural life to live in the spirit world, or something like it. There is something uncanny about the...

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Depictive seeing, Pictures, and Imagination

04/06/2018

dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;R/dropcapichard Wollheim, some-time Grote Professor of Mind and Logic at University College London, regards our looking at pictures as a special kind of...

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Madame Moustache

24/05/2018

Mistress of Beautiful Intoxicating Street Art...

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(H) oli Ep (p) iphany

24/05/2018

Oli Epp, sold out before the private view. Semiose is a gallery opened in 2005 in Paris....

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Simone de Beauvoir and Research Impact

17/05/2018

Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir In 1946, Sartre suggested that Simone de Beauvoir write a piece on the contemporary condition of women for the journal, Les Temps Moderne. She thought it would...

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The Beautiful Game

17/05/2018

Arsenal Invincibles 2003-4, English Premier League dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;I/dropcaps it at all possible that football, at its highest level, is an art form – a game of...

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Women’s Talk Outed by Florida Psychologist

10/05/2018

Tania Reynolds, Psychology, Florida State University at Tallahassee (FSU Photography Services) Tania Reynolds has written in The Journal of Experimental Psychology about the ways in which women...

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Père Lachaise: a drift

10/05/2018

Père Lachaise, May 2018, Pegs in the graveyard – the broken black teeth of a man long dead. dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;A/dropcaprchitecture, we might think, gains its aesthetic...

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Curves versus Angles

03/05/2018

Arne Jacobsen’s St Catherine’s College Oxford, Refectory dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;S/dropcaphould we prefer soft voluptuous curves or hard aggressive angles? It all...

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Construct and (Various) Disasters of Democracy

03/05/2018

Installation shot, Construct and (Various) Disasters of Democracy Galerie Dukan, Leipzig, Germany dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;D/dropcapuncan Wylie is a prodigious painter who,...

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Drink up and Have Another. Fags all Round

28/04/2018

Dadaists on a visit to the outbuildings of St Julien on 14th April 1921 A number of countries have passed laws which require cigarette manufacturers to show ‘denormalising’ images on their...

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Beat Zoderer’s Art Concret at Semiose, Paris

28/04/2018

  dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;S/dropcapwiss concrete artist, Beat Zoderer shows his work ‘Dans quel Mesure,’ at Semiose, Paris. Being Swiss gives this younger...

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Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud

19/04/2018

dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;S/dropcapoil! said the duchess, and all the courtiers reached. Soil. The journal, Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, (volume 63, 2017, issue 5)  has...

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DaliParis, re-opens with Dali the Sculptor at its centre

19/04/2018

  dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;T/dropcaphere are two good reasons for taking a fresh look at the work of Salvador Dalí. The first is that Matthew Collings, in his insightful...

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The Feminine in the Feminist: Women take their Life-Making skills into Contemporary Art

12/04/2018

Camille and Nikita Kravtsov, UFO Revolution, 2018, (detail), drawing, print and embroidery dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;A/dropcapt art schools in the sixties and seventies, American...

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Big Eyes, Emojis, and the Sickly, Sweet Smell of Sentimentality

05/04/2018

NOTHING, is as gut-wrenchingly, vomit-inducing, flu-shivery and ‘give-me-a-wrecking-drink-of-anything-strong-enough-to-get-me-drunk-in-one-big-slug,’ intolerable – as a kitten-video...

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The Quietude of Some Black and Cream/White Pictures in Paris

04/04/2018

Lee Bae, Landscape (detail) dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;M/dropcapinimal Art, it has been argued, is the dying breath of abstraction, and painting more generally (Winters, 2018)....

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