BFI London Film Festival 2014
By Dan KidnerJean-Luc Godard, Goodbye to Language, 2014. All images courtesy: BFI London Film FestivalThis year’s London Film Festival offered the perfect opportunity to take stock of the state of...
View ArticleThe Plight of Peshawar Museum
By Carol KhanThe Peshawar Museum To visit Peshawar Museum is to experience Pakistan’s colonial-ridden past, terrorist-plagued present and potentially historically significant future. During the Raj...
View ArticlePostcard from the AFI Festival 2014, Los Angeles
By Tom NewthDiao Yinan, 'Black Coal, Thin Ice', 2014Back in the years when film critic Robert Koehler ran the show, the AFI Festival positioned itself, coming towards the end of the season, as the...
View ArticleFascism, a family affair. My encounter with the writer Niklas Frank.
By Sarah KhanNiklas Frank as a child with father Hans Frank and mother Brigitte, Krakow 1942. Courtesy Niklas Frank.What does Johann Sebastian Bach’s St Matthew Passion (1727) have to do with the legal...
View ArticlePostcard from Naples
By Mike Watsonformer wool mill in the cloisters of the Church of Santa Maria in Formiello, Naples, ItalyThe art world in Naples has gained renewed energy thanks to the re-opening, in 2013, of the MADRE...
View ArticleHighlights 2014 - Sean O’Toole
By Sean O’TooleA selfie taken by Beyonce at the Louvre, in front of the Mona LisaLast year 1.2 billion photos were uploaded and shared every day. By May this year, when Mary Meeker, a former Wall...
View ArticleHighlights 2014 – Timotheus Vermeulen
By Timotheus VermeulenTwo Days, One Night (French: Deux jours, une nuit), 2014, written and directed by the Dardenne brothers, starring Marion Cotillard and Fabrizio Rongione.My highlights of the year...
View ArticleHighlights 2014 – Dan Fox
By Dan FoxAs far as disgraceful social injustice and disgusting political corruption go, 2014 was a vintage year. So for me, two of the most significant works made by artists in 2014 were not artworks....
View ArticleHighlights 2014 – Tom Morton
By Tom MortonBasim Magdy, 'A 240 Second Analysis of Failure and Hopefulness (With Coke, Vinegar and Other Tear Gas Remedies)', 2012, 160 color slides and two synchronized Kodak slide carousel...
View ArticleHighlights 2014 - Sean O’Toole
By Sean O’TooleA selfie taken by Beyonce at the Louvre, Paris, in front of the Mona LisaLast year 1.2 billion photos were uploaded and shared every day. By May this year, when Mary Meeker, a former...
View ArticleHighlights 2014 – Timotheus Vermeulen
By Timotheus VermeulenTwo Days, One Night (French: Deux jours, une nuit), 2014, written and directed by the Dardenne brothers, starring Marion Cotillard and Fabrizio Rongione.My highlights of the year...
View ArticleHighlights 2014 – Dan Fox
By Dan FoxAs far as disgraceful social injustice and disgusting political corruption go, 2014 was a vintage year. So for me, two of the most significant works made by artists in 2014 were not artworks....
View ArticleHighlights 2014 - Jonathan Griffin
By Jonathan GriffinSamara Golden, 'Thank You', 2014, Installation view at 'Made in LA', Hammer Museum, Los AngelesHow many enemies will I make if I say that 2014 was not a stellar year for art in Los...
View ArticleA Year in Western Australia
By Gemma WestonGeorge Egerton-Warburton, 'Administration is just Oulipian Poetry', 2014, exhibition view at Perth institute of Contemporary Arts. Courtesy: the artistIt’s traditional to begin...
View ArticleHighlights 2014: Ed Atkins
By Ed AtkinsJana Euler, Analysemonster, 2013, acrylic on canvasAs ever, I listened to Graham Lambkin more than anything else. In particular, an album with Jason Lescaleet called Photographs (2013). The...
View ArticleHighlights 2014 – Sean O’Toole
By Sean O’TooleA selfie taken by Beyonce at the Louvre, Paris, in front of the Mona LisaLast year 1.2 billion photos were uploaded and shared every day. By May this year, when Mary Meeker, a former...
View ArticleHighlights 2014 – Timotheus Vermeulen
By Timotheus VermeulenTwo Days, One Night (French: Deux jours, une nuit), 2014, written and directed by the Dardenne brothers, starring Marion Cotillard and Fabrizio Rongione.My highlights of the year...
View ArticleHighlights 2014 – Tom Morton
By Tom MortonBasim Magdy, 'A 240 Second Analysis of Failure and Hopefulness (With Coke, Vinegar and Other Tear Gas Remedies)', 2012, 160 color slides and two synchronized Kodak slide carousel...
View ArticleHighlights 2014 – Jonathan Griffin
By Jonathan GriffinSamara Golden, 'Thank You', 2014, Installation view at 'Made in LA', Hammer Museum, Los AngelesHow many enemies will I make if I say that 2014 was not a stellar year for art in Los...
View ArticleHighlights 2014 – Ed Atkins
By Ed AtkinsJana Euler, Analysemonster, 2013, acrylic on canvasAs ever, I listened to Graham Lambkin more than anything else. In particular, an album with Jason Lescalleet called Photographs (2013)....
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