DALI: MULTIFACETED
Javanese Mannequin (detail) Even people who detested Dali’s perverse personality, gentle association with Fascism, and occasional forays int...
DAIDO MORIYAMA: HOKKAIDO
Daido Moriyama is a legend of Japanese photography. He is well known for his raw, gritty, and often decentred images. My video of his work...
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: VARIOUS ARCHETYPES
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Saint Benedict Chapel (Architect: Peter Zumthor ) 2000/01 gelatin silver print 149.2×119.4 cm ©Hiroshi Sugimoto / Courte...
BRUEGHEL IN BLACK AND WHITE
Just for the record, it wasn’t a gang of Gauloises-smoking, coffee-swigging Frenchmen in 1920s Paris who invented surrealism. Nor was it Man...
TAKANORI KINOSHITA & JAPAN'S POST-WAR POSE
Seated Ballerina in Red Tutu (undated) The history of modern Japanese art has a hierarchy of narratives. As in the West, the top narrative i...
THE COOL NIHONGA OF KANZAN SHIMOMURA
Mona Lisa or "Avalokitesvara Bearing a Fish Basket” (c. 1927)? Art can sometimes play a balancing or compensatory role in society, givi...
SHUT UP YOU PATRIARCHS, SOME FEMINIST ART IS TALKING
I don’t normally visit exhibitions in company, but this time I made an exception, and press-ganged a female acquaintance to join me. The rea...
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