Review: Visual culture
Fighting words
There is an elephant in the room, but there are some signs that we are beginning…
Drawn from the capital
London can be a hard city to love, but David Gentleman always finds good reasons, which…
Circuit visions
First shown in Paris in 2019, this multi-sensory exhibition attempts to make connections between electronic music…
Signs of street life
At a time when many of us know our location all too well, having been…
Seaside splendour
Eclectic, yet streamlined by design. It is perhaps unsurprising that Art Deco is associated with…
Many players on the Olympic stage
Germany first hosted an Olympic Games in 1936, in Berlin and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and did so again…
The glyphic and the vedutic
D. B. Dowd is Professor of Art and American Culture Studies at Washington University, St…
An old-fashioned alien invasion
They Live: A Visual and Cultural Awakening is an exploration of John Carpenter’s classic political…
A century of no, No, NO
An air of discontent has been fomenting in the US since the turmoil of the…
Attitudinal angle
We live in an ‘extraordinarily turbulent, often perilous time when we face changes of unprecedented…