Beyond the Canvas
An art blog with opinions
 

" I want to open a space in people’s minds where they see that they can be active, intellectually and personally, rather than passive...

"Black women’s heads of hair are galaxies unto themselves, solar systems, moonscapes, volcanic interiors. The hair she paints has a mind...

Painting is a visual language where everything in the painting is meaningful, is important, is coded. But sometimes, because of the...

It's been 176 days since Breonna Taylor was killed. Breonna was 26-year-old, she worked as an emergency room technician and was on the...

"I think that most work that’s made by black artists is considered to be about blackness. [Laughs.] Unlike work that’s made by white...

Ever heard of that theory according to which trees are immortal? No? Then you clearly do not know me very well. Of course trees are not...

Today I'm celebrating my first trip into central London after 5 months of mostly staying at home. The Titian: Love, Desire, Death...

‘The series was created from a personal need for spiritual grounding after experiencing trauma. The search for what gives meaning to our...

"I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had...

Barkley L. Hendricks mostly painted portraits, a genre that flourished during the Renaissance becoming the symbol of the sitter's...

The Black Lives Matter movement is having an extraordinary impact on the way brands communicate and behave. Whether it's just 'woke...

An unusual post this week, but the cause is one that's very close to my heart. I grew up going to the theatre with my mother. Every week...

The growing momentum of the Black Lives Matter movement and the increased media focus on black culture have brought a multitude of...

Art history is punctuated by a constant juxtaposition of departure from and alignment to tradition. At the same time as some artists are...

Suspended between Piero della Francesca's spatial geometries and De Chirico's metaphysics, Casorati paints a portrait that looks like a...

Christo left us earlier this week, he died in his New York home at the age of 84. Together with his life and work partner Jeanne-Claude...

Defining what a museum is and does is no mean feat. We know museums do a lot more than just preserve and display valuable objects that...

I have been to a couple of auctions in London and I thought there was something uniquely intriguing about the whole process. The...

The numbers are in. According to The Art Newspaper's yearly survey, Ai Weiwei is officially the world's most popular artist. His...

This is not just my favourite Caravaggio, this is the ultimate Caravaggio. For me, this is the painting that demonstrates the full extent...