art blog since 2009
Can creative content be art? This question worried me as I picked up Tîn Droi by artist Bedwyr Williams. This book is published by the National Trust, commissioned by National Trust Cymru and promotes National Trust properties in Wales. So, I asked myself, whose beloved property is the end product? The National Trust has had …
November 28, 2025
Can an artist activate items in a museum collection, or do those items activate the artist in turn? At the Amelia Scott Civic Centre in Tunbridge Wells, a rook, a fox, a kingfisher, a crystalline rock and a dinosaur bone have all triggered a new work by David Blandy. Each of these artefacts has been …
November 6, 2025
On my way to Handel Street Projects, the bus passed Abbey Road. There were about two dozen tourists by the iconic crossing, staging photographs and re-enactments. A negotiation between drivers and pedestrians takes place all day here. It’s a scene of celebration of visual culture, which set the tone for me as I travelled to …
October 13, 2025
How the exploration of prehistoric painted caves can also make great telly
May 8, 2025
A review of contraband art by Palestinian artists trapped in Gaza
April 9, 2025
Reproductions proliferate to seal a twenty-first century artist’s reputation
April 5, 2025
Rachel Kushner writes literary fiction that almost turns the pages for you. It is that engrossing. Her latest novel, Creation Lake, revolves around a reclusive intellectual who, having left civilisation behind to live in a cave, emerges now and again to send philosophical emails to a group of nearby acolytes. Could probably have his own …
March 24, 2025