Daniel Barnes, Author at Trebuchet

Author: Daniel Barnes

I have worked as a lecturer, teacher, bookshop manager, gallery invigilator, curator and freelance writer, for the most part simultaneously, which exemplifies a lifelong passion for art, culture and ideas. I was born on the Isle of Wight in the very year that both Jean Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation and Arthur Danto’s The Transfiguration of the Commonplace were published.

Gavin Turk’s Reimagining of Richter

22/11/2022

Painting the Glitch in the Matrix: Gavin Turk at Ben Brown Fine Arts. ...

Walking into Modernity

26/09/2022

Specially commissioned works and historical pieces come together at Saudi Arabia's Ithra Museum. ...

Celebrity as Material

15/08/2021

Celebrity as Art Material: Once art ceases to be mimetic, portraiture as representation becomes destabilized, enabling it to investigate concepts such as celebrity as well as appearance. ...