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Blog: Visual culture

21 September 2010

Streets ahead

simon esterson

Vevey’s ‘Images’ festival celebrates photography in and out of the gallery

During September, the Swiss town of Vevey has been host to ‘Images’, its second festival…

20 September 2010

Music tech mags from 1930

john l. walters

New-media fundamentalists, circuit diagrams and a 22.5 lb ‘portable’

A kind neighbour dropped round with two music magazines published in June 1930: Gramophone and…

15 September 2010

Sitting still

the events department

Helmut Palla’s twisted, surreal chairs at Vienna Design Week

1 > 10 October is Vienna Design Week. One exhibition that has caught our eye…

14 September 2010

When Harry IM-ed Sally

camilla grey

Camilla Grey looks at modern love in the online ether

Tweeps, friends, followers, subscribers, buddies – in this socially networked world there is seemingly no…

8 September 2010

Paint the city clean

julie fairless

Officially sanctioned street art on the thoroughfares of Bangalore

Change is written on the walls of urban India – and nowhere is this more…

7 September 2010

Restless soul

books received

Another side of David Lynch: film director and visual artist

David Lynch may be more famous as a film director, but he originally studied art…

6 September 2010

Graphic appetiser

john ridpath, the events department

‘We consume things visually before we consume them physically’

‘Appetite’, a forthcoming exhibition hosted by the Herb Lubalin Study Center at New York college…

2 September 2010

Divine Noir

books received

From Hell to Heaven in Seymour Chwast’s graphic take on Dante

Seymour Chwast’s first graphic novel, published next week, sees the designer / illustrator tackle Dante…

31 August 2010

Escaping Modernism

wayne ford

Edward Weston’s flight from photographic theory

The early twentieth century saw photography dominated by the influence of painting, with the then…

29 August 2010

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