Review: Visual culture
Drawn from the capital
London can be a hard city to love, but David Gentleman always finds good reasons, which are…
Circuit visions
First shown in Paris in 2019, this multi-sensory exhibition attempts to make connections…
Signs of street life
At a time when many of us know our location all too well, having been unable to…
Seaside splendour
Eclectic, yet streamlined by design. It is perhaps unsurprising that Art Deco is…
Many players on the Olympic stage
Germany first hosted an Olympic Games in 1936, in Berlin and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and…
The glyphic and the vedutic
D. B. Dowd is Professor of Art and American Culture Studies at Washington University…
An old-fashioned alien invasion
They Live: A Visual and Cultural Awakening is an exploration of John Carpenter’s…
A century of no, No, NO
An air of discontent has been fomenting in the US since the turmoil of the 2016…
Hardcore history
More than 40 years after punk happened, the phenomenon is still being fêted as a…
Attitudinal angle
We live in an ‘extraordinarily turbulent, often perilous time when we face changes of…