“where do you go to my lovely when you’re alone in your bed?” (title from the song with lyrics by Peter Sarstedt, 1969, listen to… Read More »Where do you go to my lovely when you’re alone in your bed?
“There’s an app for that” Originally published in Art of England, Issue 79, 2011. Reproduced with permission. The last roll of Kodachrome film was shot… Read More »There’s an app for that
“The Vampire Art Schools” Originally published in Art of England, Issue 75, 2010. Reproduced with permission. Someone said once (probably Adam Smith) that teachers should… Read More »The Vampire Art Schools
“On Learning to Steal” Originally published in Art of England, Issue 77, 2011. Reproduced with permission. I was watching some students in a gallery the… Read More »On Learning to Steal
“Censorship and Arts” Originally published in Art of England, Issue 28, 2011. Reproduced with permission. Who would have thought the real cyber-war would be fought… Read More »Subversion and lies: the enemies of open art
“Dirt!” Originally published in Art of England, Issue 83, 2011. Reproduced with permission. In the film Amadeus, Salieri says of Mozart that it was like… Read More »Dirt!
Aelita Andrea is very young and yet she is showing us what goes on in the mind of a child through her art. See her… Read More »And from a child … true abstraction
The earliest cave paintings were abstract. Now we can move on and reappraise the historical bias toward figurative and representational art. The early humans painted… Read More »In the beginning, there was abstraction
I wrote an opinion piece in the Art of England (issue 77, January 2011) on the issue of artistic plagiarism called “On Learning to Steal”.… Read More »Artistic Plagiarism: should artists use footnotes?
A debate started on the Arts Journal on Leadership/Followership raises a number of challenges for arts groups. In my view, the simple lead/follow dichotomy is… Read More »The digital future of 21st century arts organisations