Dispatches from the Field

It was clear that students at Oxford Brookes had been encouraged to think on their own terms, taken heed of this and moved swiftly onwards.  The show was characterized by the adventurous and individualistic. Often one finds, as is natural in any community, that certain influences become predominant, and at Brookes it was clearly influence […]

Much of the press coverage of the Frieze Art Fair this year has been witty, funny, and just a little snide. It is perhaps unsurprising that Reviews of the fair have focused on the marginal apparatus: on the parties, the celebrities, the sales. This of course may be a semantic point in itself, that the […]

Heinrich Mann, an obscure German novelist, once wrote that:  “A house without books is like a room without windows.” It’s a fittingly compact phrase, and manages to switch spaces within tight confines, describing the perspectives made possible by books. The phrase enacts a heady narrowing, inherent in the solitary experience of reading, which is entirely […]

This week we travelled to Glasgow to see the culmination of all the work and effort put in by the undergraduates of the Glasgow School of Art, held in the beautiful Mackintosh Building. We have brought you some of our reactions and thoughts, and photographs, from our time spent there. Omercan Cirit’s lament for future-imaging […]