When Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s “Founding and Manifesto of Futurism” blazed across the front page of Le Figaro in 1909, its glorification of speed, machinery, and…
By Sara Bright They were portals. Tucked into wire racks in smoky bookshops or piled high on market stalls, the paperback covers of the 1970s…
By Sara Bright It began, as terror often does, with a polite knock on a hotel room door. A mundane, civilised sound that gave no…
It isn’t merely a drawing; it’s a cartography of the damned, a diagram of despair drawn with the exquisite precision of a Renaissance master. This…
By Sara Bright There are moments when the machinery of the state and the untamable spirit of art collide with the force of a car…
By Tessa Nolan It was a happy accident. A moment of shared frustration at 35,000 feet over the English Channel, a spilt diary, a lament…
In December 1981, the poet and critic Rene Ricard published an essay in Artforum that would permanently alter the trajectory of contemporary art. Titled “The…
By Anthony Fawcett, the esteemed art critic and historian, once served as John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s personal curator. His illustrious career includes introducing Man…
There is a particular, glossy species of melancholy that thrives under the gallery lights of the twenty-first century. It is meticulously rendered, profoundly beautiful, and…
By Katerina Karp, visual artist, journalist, researcher Reflections after an evening at Manchester Museum The world becomes richer and more layered when we learn to…