Beyond the Canvas
An art blog with opinions
 

There are exhibitions that touch you somewhere deep inside. Far from merely delighting you visually, they grab you by the hand and they...

In my mind, a portrait is the depiction of an actual person, someone who has lived. Their portrait was made so their story could be told...

"I like the idea of thinking of femininity as something solid and enduring rather than always something fragile and weak." - Simone Leigh...

"I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life." - Robert Capa (1913-1954) Alas, Capa's hopes were destined to...

Eclipsed by Ferrara's and crushed between Venice's and Florence's, Bologna's Renaissance art fails to garner the attention and...

“I, Albrecht Dürer of Nuremberg portrayed myself in appropriate colours aged twenty-eight years”. In painting himself like Christ the...

You know when you're having a conversation with a friend and the following day you read something that exactly echoes your thoughts...

"One of the strongest feelings I have about death is that it's a time when the energy we carry is dispersed and becomes a part of...

If there is an equivalent of Zoom fatigue for art shows, I 100% suffer from it. The ridiculous speed at which I move from one room to the...

Being inside an empty museum at night might well be the ultimate art lover's fantasy. Apart from not having to share the space with herds...

Paula Rego died today. The art world has lost one of the greats. I'm so glad I got to see her some of her work one more time at the...

My experience at the Venice Biennale is that it is often the fortuitous detour, aka me getting lost like I inevitably do, that is going...

“That is the archaeology I am unearthing: The spectre of police violence and state control over the bodies of young Black and Brown...

I had been following Nikolay Lukin on Instagram for some time, and this morning he followed me back. Дякую, Микола. His latest post is a...

"During the quarantine period, I began to create staged self-portraits at home. In the photo, which was the beginning of the series, I...

Artem Volokitin was born in 1981. He lives and works in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city, home to 1.4 million people and less than...

There are moments in life when our fear is such that we scramble for ways of taming it, in the hope that this crippling fear will somehow...

Today Instagram is aflood with red hearts, declarations of eternal love, schmaltzy quotes and unmissable promotions. And while swathes of...

"Good artists copy; great artists steal." - Apocryphal quote The history of modern and contemporary art is littered with instances of...

Current rabbit hole update: scandals and crimes in the art world, of which I am delighted to inform you there is an abundance of. One...