Louise Bourgeois and the Woven Child: Fabric, Art and Feminism
There is no natural light in the Hayward Gallery. The artworks are illuminated in a soft, artificial glow, similar to the flat light of dusk. Gallery visitors creep around in the crepuscular gloom and I watch their shadows flit across the weave of Louise Bourgeois’ fabric children.
These creations are curious and malformed. They invariably slouch or hang - anything but stand up straight - as...
NFTs: What's Worth Obliterating?
We are talking about an online auction that is notable because the highest bidder would walk away not only with a piece of physical art in digitised form, but also the ability to destroy the original physical piece.
Still Animal: Francis Bacon
Bacon in his studio, Jane Bown ,1985
On an airless white soundstage, shutters scream up. A man steps in. He walks with brass dignity, a hand in his pocket, wearing the colours and contours of Berlin; black turtleneck, grey blazer; mouth ajar, as always, like the eyes above it have found something tasty in a trap. Another man waits for him, suited, with the aspect of someone who would wait fore...
Album Review: Weather, Tycho
Great art so often comes from dark, restless places. Creative trailblazers channel inner turmoil into their work as a cathartic measure, exorcising demons through the stroke of a paintbrush or punch of a piano key.
Do Some Books Defy Cinema?
Today, a novel isn’t held back by visual demands (in other words, penny pinching), but much less earthly limitations of the work itself.
Artist Profile: Finding Robert Pattinson
A strange case of someone who started as a franchise poster boy, ducked out to make art films, and is heading back to the mainstream.
Album Review: =, Ed Sheeran
For the record, I’m not saying Ed Sheeran is abhorrent. He’s fine. He plays an instrument. He does Glasto on his todd and has cool tricks with a pedal