Loveable as it is, Italy has long been the laughing stock of Europe — one of several reasons we in the UK have cited for our gratitude for the first-past-the-post system of Parliamentary Democracy. That’s ...
At 12:30 on the 5th of September 2022, the Conservative Party bestowed on the country what it never knew it needed: Liz Truss, a woman of such greatness that she doesn’t even need to be ...
‘I am informing all brave Muslims of the world that the author of The Satanic Verses, a text written, edited, and published against Islam, the Prophet of Islam, and the Qur’an, along with all the ...
The world’s leading Digital Artist, David Hockney, dislikes NFTs. “What is it they’re owning? I don’t really know,” he remarked in a 2021 interview with The Sunday Times art critic Waldemar Januszczak. I couldn’t help ...
Covid—19 is a veritable Futurist; that is to say that what a few brown-shirted, decadent, Italian thugs failed to do, the Pandemic has almost accomplished. ‘We must destroy the museums,’ Filippo Tomasso Marinetti wrote in ...
Andy Warhol’s 1964 Shot Sage Blue Marilyn is expected to sell for $200 million when offered at Christie’s New York. If so, it will become the most expensive artwork of the 20th century to sell ...
28th – 30th January 2022 Whitespace Gallery 76E Crosscauseway, Edinburgh 3/5 I’ve always found Edinburgh a miserable place. The cold, grey stone and the icy winds, whipped up from the North Sea, have often ...
5/5 In my opinion, John Constable has always seemed relatively boring. His organic English landscapes have always seemed too pale in comparison to his arch-rival, J.M.W. Turner. The Hay Wain, for instance, is a remarkable ...
“ZANG TUUM TUMB” So begins one of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s poems. That’s not Italian, if the reader hadn’t noticed, but rather, it seems like a battle-hungry child’s verse rendition of Marinetti and his fellow Futurists’ ...
There are few painters who attract more vitriol and controversy than Paul Gauguin. It’s the underage Tahitian girls, who — unlike the wrongs of other artists — are unavoidable due to their presence in his ...
This week it was announced that U.S. officials have filed a lawsuit against Penguin Random House to block its proposed takeover of Simon & Schuster. “The merger would give Penguin Random House outsized influence over ...
The Death of Chatterton, an 1859 painting by Henry Wallis, has come to represent all that we expect of ‘the tortured artist’. The young Thomas Chatterton, having poisoned himself with arsenic, lies dead. A gentle ...
Art is inherently political. Yeh, yeh, you’ve heard it all before. That insipid statement, debated in cold stone school rooms and by bespectacled, turtle-neck wearing pseudos in their mid-teens. It persists. Cliché, bold, and affrontive as it ...
Orvieto is a small, Umbrian city, set upon an excrescent heap of volcanic rock, which somewhat resembles a ruined classical column, half-inhumed but still striving upwards with unbounded pride. Beneath the rock, a verdurous valley ...
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