Reflecting on the expressionism of Van Gough and thinking about what it offers to the contemporary painter Natalie Andrews takes a critical view of the mad-messiah stereotype and reminds us whats really at stake. (read more)
Can Hal Foster laugh authenticity out of existence? Revisiting ‘The Expressive Fallacy’, a rights of passage for artists. (read more)
‘The Expressive Fallacy’ is an article from 1983 which still reverberates through the art world. (read more)
New forms of power emerge all the time and for a while they escape criticism, but not forever! (read more)
The hero of radical Italian art in who painting is reinvigorated as the premier medium encompassing all others. (read more)
We recreate our myths everywhere, those which are beautiful and horrifying (read more)
The Idea of newness is an essential part of the function of art in modern times but what does that mean and how does newness form and change? Are we all prone to long for a past that never was or a future that can never be? (read more)
As part of the exploration of the forming of Modernism Natalie Andrews considers the influence of William Morris via an object in the V&A. (read more)
Modernism and the avant-garde is the theme of the second part of Natalie Andrews exploration of the epoch and its influence on our time. (read more)
Brutalisim is part of every major city in the uk, is it worth maintaing or a terrible scar on the landscape? (read more)
Simon Bill is a polymath and deserves a long hard look from a curious audience his work probes perception itself. (read more)
Comparing fiction with history we explore the reactions to modernism, which is stranger you decide. (read more)
Pokémon has 65 million monthly users and makes use of ‘augmented reality’ but does it really add if anything to its users lives? (read more)
The 19th century is where our ideas of the modern come from so what can that time say to us? (read more)
Shamanism has a place in the arts and famously Joseph Beuys pioneered this, but what is shamanism and what’s it for? (read more)
Nestor Pestana is a speculative designer making work that explores the modern world through a philosophers eyes. (read more)
Agents of truth and manipulation fight for posession of our soles Adam Curtis can help us understand the battlefield (read more)
Spontaneous and Impressionistic images record the life of a travelling artist and recall early 20th century optimism (read more)
The transformation of a world veiw is possible but does art approach the challenge? (read more)
Chinese hegemony is it something to worry about? It is if your uncomfortable with the West becoming more undemocratic and prone to long term leaders who stay on for, stability. (read more)
Michael Radford is a highly talented art photographer with a knack for surfaces but there are layers to consider also! (read more)
We have been imagining ‘Chimerica’ since Blade Runner in 1982 many years before the word was coined! The nightmare is made of the worst aspects of both worlds unbridled consumerism, industrial waste and authoritarian rule…er fantasy? (read more)
Can Graphic Design Change The World? (read more)
Modernism is in the news because as it turns out not that many people ever really got it! Since we have long since left this epoch behind and since its exerts such an influence maybe we should make more effort! (read more)
Remaking the world in China. Its long been thought that our products would change China but it seems China is not so ready to be co-opted! our products and brands are easily transformed through sinicisation. (read more)
Cynical Chinese art makes liberal westerners feel good but what will we make of the new proud Chinese middle class? (read more)
China is developing its soft power portfolio; state propaganda, Confucius institutes, strategic investment and of course, art. (read more)
To fully understand the impact of China in the modern world its important to have an idea of how the self styled communist state extricated the free market from democracy. (read more)
The Symbiosis of China & America (read more)
When the idea is to introduce new voices in contemporary art, it helps not to have the judging panel overshadow the artists (read more)
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