Beyond the Canvas
Laura Aguilar's courageous rebellion
“My photography has always provided me with an opportunity to open myself up and see the world around me. And most of all, photography...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Mar 18, 2021
- 2 min
Women as icons and targets
Revered by the public, reviled by the art establishment and eventually sold at auction for almost £1m, the Mona Lisa of kitsch was...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Mar 12, 2021
- 2 min
Drawing the unbreakable cycle of violence
Domestic abuse is a gendered crime. According to data from 2019, 92% of the defendants in domestic abuse-related prosecutions in the UK...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Feb 14, 2021
- 2 min
The Monuments Project: when technology fosters social change
"All of our heroes are slave owners that would own people like myself if they were still around." - Glen Cantave, founder and CEO Movers...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Feb 5, 2021
- 2 min
Kerry James Marshall IS the canon
“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...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Jan 29, 2021
- 2 min
Rewriting the art canon: Kehinde Wiley's triptych for Penn Station, NYC
"I like Venetian painting a lot: looking at Giovanni Battista Tiepolo is one of my favourite things to do. When I went to my first Venice...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Jan 16, 2021
- 2 min
A legal killing spree
"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...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Jan 12, 2021
- 2 min
Experience and participation in Olafur Eliasson's The Weather Project
“Having an experience is taking part in the world. Taking part in the world is really about sharing responsibility.” – Olafur Eliasson I...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Jan 8, 2021
- 2 min
May Steven's Dark Flag
"Political activity does not interfere with my work, it feeds it. And if I'm interested in racism and fighting racism, then that should...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Jan 2, 2021
- 2 min
Honours? No, thank you.
"I would never have any intention of accepting anything like that. I seriously don't know what it's for. " David Bowie, 2003 It's that...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Dec 6, 2020
- 2 min
Layer upon layer of nostalgia.
Palm Springs is an odd place. It's a place of visual layers, a landscape that is both supremely monotonous and exceptionally soothing....
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Beyond the Canvas
- Nov 14, 2020
- 2 min
Art is essential, now more than ever.
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” Pablo Picasso Dust. How many tonnes of dust are we currently covered in?...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Nov 8, 2020
- 2 min
The delightful reunion of the Griffoni Polyptych - Palazzo Fava, Bologna
As Italy goes into lockdown for the second time, the doors of the museums close again. And so we enter another month (?) of art...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Nov 1, 2020
- 2 min
Kim Abeles' Smog Collectors
"The Smog Collectors materialize the reality of the air we breathe. I place cut, stencilled images on transparent or opaque plates or...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Oct 25, 2020
- 2 min
Empty plates in Southend (things are about to get very political)
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...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Oct 20, 2020
- 2 min
Fourteen days to the US Presidential election.
“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...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Oct 9, 2020
- 1 min
Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk -Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Iconic, but not frozen in time - a garment that continues to evolve and fascinate. That is the premise of this show that traces the...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Oct 4, 2020
- 2 min
The liberation of Artemisia Gentileschi - National Gallery, London
The overwhelming dominance of Artemisia Gentileschi's personal narrative over her worth as an artist has always bothered me. The rape,...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Sep 27, 2020
- 1 min
Annie-Rose Fiddian-Green: Celebrating the lungs of our planet
"During lockdown I moved to north Norfolk where my attention was captivated by the ancient trees that hold the space there so powerfully....
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Beyond the Canvas
- Sep 24, 2020
- 2 min
Tintoretto's scenic inventions
"I never was so utterly crushed to the earth before any human intellect as I was today before Tintoret." - wrote John Ruskin to his...
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