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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...

Why Cricket must be officially added to the Fine Arts

,Why It’s Time to Add Willow and Leather to the Pantheon of the Arts There...

BOOK REVIEW: Theatre of Feet: Football as Performance Art by Dr. Lionel Pym

To assert that English football is a kind of performance art is, at first glance...

INTERVIEW: Salvatore Crump on Pizza, the Mona Lisa, and Why Rugby is the Ultimate Performance Art

By Ottilie Cardoon Salvatore Crump is not a man who can be easily summarised. At...

Exhibition Review: “Everything Is Also Nothing, Probably” at Zamboni, Hoxton

There are art shows that delight. There are those that challenge. And then there is...

Book Review: The Runcible Goose Has Landed by Eustacia Blot

In The Runcible Goose Has Landed, debut novelist and accomplished fine artist Eustacia Blot offers...