Beyond the Canvas
An art blog with opinions
 

"If I have to change my lifestyle, I don't want to live." - Robert Mapplethorpe In this powerful self-portrait Robert Mapplethorpe looks...

'My piece is not talking about old slave ships; it's about what happens today' says Romuald Hazoumé about his multimedia installation 'La...

“I always use simple elements, I don’t want to add or subtract anything. I never even wanted to deform either: I isolate and I represent....

It's been 15 years to the day since Anna Politkovskaya was murdered for fearlessly and relentlessly telling the truth. Anna was gunned...

Like many, I have been following the recent events unfolding in Afghanistan. I have mostly been feeling sad and powerless while thinking...

At long last, my reading drought has come to an end. I am currently re-reading the original version of The Life Before Us written in 1975...

Earlier this week, a near-total ban on abortions has come into effect in the state of Texas. This means that after six weeks of...

There are wounds so deep they never really heal. They are the wounds we share with other people, whether we know them or not, the wounds...

According to the Financial Times, Abu Dhabi is planning to spend $6bn on various cultural projects to diversify from oil. This is not a...

"I think America must see that riots do not develop out of thin air. A riot is the language of the unheard." Martin Luther King, Jr....

“My photography has always provided me with an opportunity to open myself up and see the world around me. And most of all, photography...

“Who needs to NOT think of you as a Black artist to consider you a real artist?” - Kerry James Marshall There are a handful of artists...

"When you see a gruesome picture over and over again, it really doesn’t have any effect." — Andy Warhol Warhol was an avid collector of...

"Political activity does not interfere with my work, it feeds it. And if I'm interested in racism and fighting racism, then that should...

"The Smog Collectors materialize the reality of the air we breathe. I place cut, stencilled images on transparent or opaque plates or...

I was researching a post that involved smog and plates (fear not, it's coming), when I came across photos of different plates. These are...

“We are at a precipice in this country, and we are either going to move forward or we are not.” - Carrie Mae Weems In 2016, nearly half...

The overwhelming dominance of Artemisia Gentileschi's personal narrative over her worth as an artist has always bothered me. The rape,...

"This Christ will never be forgotten. Was it made from earth? Was it rotting flesh? I didn’t know what the medium was […] The three Marys...

"The wall is a monument to openness over enclosure, lightness over heaviness, transience over permanence — it’s also fraught with...