Review
Way with words
Barbara Kruger’s career began in magazines, but for the past four or more decades she’s identified as an artist …
Not the full picture
Reality bites
Tight focus
The first page of the introduction to Typophoto lets us know what a daunting but exhilarating book faces the reader.
Keep the red square flying
When VIP passengers such as The Beatles were photographed at the top of the stairs, the logo was visible in the background …
From exotic wonderland to self-determination
Decorated sheds at the urban crossroads
Art’s oversized memorial
Art Spiegelman’s comic-strip memoir In the Shadow of No Towers revisits his slow recovery from the US events of September 2001, sharing with the reader his pessimism, rage and profound disorientation.
The fellowship of Magnum
In a world of real-time reporting and satellite links, the seemingly infinite range of subjects found in this mammoth book is surely a sign of the photo-story’s continuing relevance.
Prints of Persia: Islamic World Posters
Organised by the Iranian Academy of Art in association with the Saba Artistic and Cultural Center, this new event provided an opportunity to see artists not only from Iran, but also from Syria, Qatar, Oman, Yemen, the Sudan and elsewhere, whose work is rarely shown at poster biennials.