Category: Art

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. – Aristotle

Face-to-Face: Mary Kelly and Conceptualism

Mary Kelly, Face-to-Face, solo exhibition, installation view, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London (2018)  dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;M/dropcapary Kelly’s Face-to-Face exhibition...

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Mythological Entropy

Mothmeister: Revelations behind the mask...

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TRA: Pressed for release

Saturday Cartoon by Alex Brenchley 2018...

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Depiction in the work of a Photo-Collagist

Conceptualist and Romantic Photo-Collagist Provides insight into Depiction: John Stezaker at the Approach...

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Uncommon Bodies in Figurative Art

Martha Parsey: Symbolic feminism and the revolt...

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TRA: Art Books

Saturday Cartoon by Alex Brenchley 2018...

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Observations from the Gallery: Turing

Saturday Cartoon by Alex Brenchley 2018...

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A Romance of Many Dimensions at sid motion

Matthew Barnes, Hannah Hughes, and Abigail Hunt @ sid motion gallery...

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Lungs of coral, hearts of stone

Katharine Dowson: Internal beauty reflected in nature...

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Observations from the Gallery: Trump

Saturday Cartoon by Alex Brenchley 2018...

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Paintings, Flat Sculpture, and Non-Medium Specific Art

Sarah Sze at Victoria Miro...

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Mud and the Body By-Product

Damien Meade: making the artificial appear sentient...

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Alchemical Transformations in Soul & Psyche

Bert Gilbert: Rites of passage...

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Pain, Wit & Painting

Andrew Litten: timeless models of expression...

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Science Fiction and New Dimensions in Art

Adam Dix: The subtle elevation of iconography and reality...

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The Poetry & Potency of Presence

Gail Olding: Emotional access in conceptual art...

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Vanessa Winship & Dorothea Lange at the Barbican Centre

Artefacts take mysterious meanings, and the monochromatic treatment of the rest of the exhibition breaks free into vibrant colours and ideas that may point to new departures in the photographer's...

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Marie-Louise von Motesiczky at the Freud Museum

Like the Freuds, Marie- Louise and her mother fled Austria immediately after the Anschluss in 1938. They arrived in England in 1940 where they spent the rest of their lives....

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Of Art, Cultural Heritage, and Human Harm

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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Fracturing Reality Cubism & Perception

The conscious, deliberate dissociation and recombination of elements into a new artistic entity....

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Painting and Research in the University

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

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Neo Futurist Collective

Following Marinetti is a big ask the man called the caffine of Europe would surely approve of the publicity though. ...

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Painterly Process and Human Traces

The emerging artist Connor Robertson has a sophisticated painterly technique and a strong sense of drama. ...

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Exclaim Galatea

Can you with conviction exclaim 'Galatea!' to find out read on....

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China’s Contemporary Cultural Revolution

Zhu Wei is an internationally acclaimed artist who examines contemporary China using traditional painting methods, he shares his thoughts in issue 3 of Trebuchet Magazine (excerpt here) ...

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Neo-Modernism: soul nourishing renaissance ?

Can we have another renaissance? why not, Neo-Modernism only needs its own Michelangelo to fuel a return to modernisms core values. ...

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Meta Modernity & The End of Postmodernity?

Meta Modernity is a contender to topple the stultifying epoch that is postmodernism or is it?...

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Alter-modern, Claiming a New Era

In 2009 at the Tate the concepts of 'Alter-modern' and 'relational aesthetics' were deployed to announce the end of postmodernity. ...

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Ed Kienholz’ Early Work

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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The Eclipse of Postmodernism?

What are the key contenders to postmodernism and can they really end the epoch?...

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