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Interview: The Art You Can’t See — A Conversation with an Invisibilist

By Cal Dereau In a studio somewhere in North London, the artist known only as...

Guns, Car Chases and Existentialism: The Glory of Arthouse-Action Cinema

There was a time,not long ago,when the action genre was straightforward: guns, explosions, a grizzled...

Repaintage: The Art of Erasure and Reinvention

In a world where originality is currency and the line between creation and destruction continues...

The Return of Lukas Bellamy: The Curator Who Waited

by Margerie Hinche When I first wrote about Lukas Bellamy a few months ago, he...

Reflections on the famous New York exhibition of My Friend Leslie

In the spring of 2019, My Friend Leslie staged a widely discussed and critically divisive...

The Lost Pages of Modernism: On the Discovery of Otto Vallin’s Diary

by Dr. Cecilia Rowland, FRSA Art Historian, Vallin expert and author of the award-winning book...

A Shadow in the Gallery: A Riposte to Invisibilism

by Dr. Clement Darnley, Professor of Aesthetic Theory, University of Sussex Invisibilism, that beguiling spectre...

Why Is Public Art So Terrible? (Part I)

,An Inquiry into the Cult of Consensus, the Tyranny of Uplift, and the Crisis of...

An Evening with Linnea Mirthva: Translator, Guitarist, Poet

Reading from her translations of the legendary Wevi Jequa, greatest poet of the Outer Calyx...