Dispatches from the Field

Held at the Truman Brewery in Brick Lane the show sprawled out across 5 large spaces – the work was not densely arranged and each artist got their generous quota of space. The Illustrators displayed their works in a concertina, (snaking down a large space that also contained Photography) which acted as large scale portfolios, […]

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 […]

Design critic Stephen Bayley’s article on ‘The Gentle Art of Selling Yourself’ on the perils and pleaures of fashioning oneself, Cary Grant famously and eerily said: ‘Everybody wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.’

“I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven” – Jean Baptiste Camille Corot Jean B.C. Corot – The Lyrical Landscape Another thought: Commentator and maker Carla Sanders wrote that: “Whatever reasons are behind a person’s choice to buy, it is an unambiguous statement of desire fulfilled”.