history Archives - Trebuchet

Permindar Kaur, Unititled – Bed, 2020. Photo by Richard Davies._web

Can Artists Really Transform Space? Kaur And Sahib at Pitzhanger Manor

22/05/2025

A preview of Permindar Kaur's "Mirror, Mirror" and Prem Sahib's "Doubles" at Pitzhanger Manor...

Image shows painting by Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945) Wald (Forest) , 1973–74 Watercolour on paper, 17 x 24 cm Hall Collection. Courtesy of the Hall Art Foundation. © Anselm Kiefer. Photo: Adam Reic

Can you really paint a metaphor? Anselm Kiefer’s early works may have the answer

20/01/2025

The Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, presents a landmark exhibition of German artist Anselm Kiefer....

Barbershop Boor (2022) 1m x 1m oil on canvas by Michael Eden.

Goya in Time-Based Media (Reflecting on the summer of 2024)

15/08/2024

Excoriating and insightful, painter and poet Michael Eden reflects, in verse, on the machinations of the mob....

Queer Blues

02/09/2023

Uncovering Hidden LGBTQ Figures in The Blues...

Breaking down Hierarchy

16/02/2023

A collaborative curatorial experiment lies at the heart of a Manchester Museum’s new South Asia Gallery...

Chantal Meza, Fragments of a catastrophe XIII. 2018

Do We Need a New Definition of Violence? Brad Evans on Art and Technology Pt 2

06/02/2023

Part two of Trebuchet's interview with Philosopher Brad Evans on violence, history and contemporary life. ...

Do We Need a New Definition of Violence? Brad Evans on Art and Technology

29/01/2023

An interview with Philosopher Brad Evans on violence, history and contemporary life. ...

Tavares Strachan In Total Darkness

15/10/2022

In Total Darkness, the first solo exhibition of Tavares Strachan at the Marian Goodman Paris gallery...

Memories of a Warrior: Chaz Guest

22/01/2022

Chaz Guest brings his vivid scenes of American history to his first New York show in two decades. ...

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Kings Never Die: Christian Boltanski’s Esprit

11/01/2022

The Manege's Central Exhibition Hall holds Esprits, Christian Boltanski’s first-ever solo exhibition at St Petersburg....

Tacita Dean, Blackboard drawing, Courtesy Marian Goodman

Drawing With Dust: History, Time and Place in Tacita Dean’s Chalk Drawings

31/03/2021

Those old enough will recall the spine-tingling screech of chalk across classroom blackboards, the air full of dust. ...

History Remixed to a New Beat

24/02/2021

Belgian New Beat fuelled a perfect storm of moral panic on a French TV report about the scene. Yet like punk, condemnation made it more successful. ...

When Gonzo Met Farce

05/06/2020

Conception unknown, The Buried Spitfires of Burma: A ‘Fake’ History is a tortured love child of Thompson’s Rum Diary and Poe’s "Gold Bug". ...

Precious Nothing Pt 3: I Ching

08/05/2019

Space-time contains value on all human levels of understanding so where do we sit with it? ...

Precious Nothing Pt 2: Borges

01/05/2019

Space-time contains value on all human levels of understanding so where do we sit with it? ...

Precious Nothing Pt 1: Pi

24/04/2019

Space-time contains value on all human levels of understanding so where do we sit with it? ...

John Dee and the Empire of Angels

12/09/2018

Recommended to those wishing for an in-depth summation of a fascinating figure and general readers who want their hair blown back by a rollicking historical tale. ...