Review: Visual culture
Dingbats in the basement
This exhibition was perfect for children, a perfect primer. They can make their own icons…
Reality bites
When I saw the release of Silvio Lorusso’s What Design Can’t Do, I bought it…
Fighting words
There is an elephant in the room, but there are some signs that we are…
Drawn from the capital
London can be a hard city to love, but David Gentleman always finds good reasons, which…
Many players on the Olympic stage
Germany first hosted an Olympic Games in 1936, in Berlin and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and did so again…
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…
A century of no, No, NO
An air of discontent has been fomenting in the US since the turmoil of the…
The glyphic and the vedutic
D. B. Dowd’s Stick Figures is a self-consciously polemical book that invites argument.