Whaam! Blam! and Roy Lichtenstein’s stamps
Pop art has always been a style ripe with issues of intellectual property. What constitutes theft in art, and what is merely inspiration or homage? Where is that oddly ephemeral […]
Harry Belafonte passes away at 96
This past week has seen the loss of one of the world’s most iconic voices in music and a paragon for societal progress, Harry Belafonte. Passing at his home in […]
Prison food: what we learned from organising art workshops for women prisoners
Prison food: what we learned from organising food-themed art workshops for women prisoners Maria Adams, University of Surrey; Erin Power, Liverpool John Moores University, and Jon Garland, University of Surrey There […]
Ballad of the Motherland plunges humanity’s dark depth in wartime
Last week saw the close of Neptune Theatre’s most recent production, Annie Valentina’s new play Ballad of the Motherland. And while the window of opportunity may be closed for now […]
Guud san glans Robert Davidson at Vancouver Art Gallery
The aesthetic sensibilities of the Haida are some of the most iconic and easily recognizable, a wealth of modern artists bringing the bold styles of their people to modern audiences. […]
In a Roman villa at the center of a nasty inheritance dispute, a Caravaggio masterpiece is hidden from the public
Monika Schmitter, UMass Amherst I teach Italian Renaissance and Baroque art, so when I was visiting Rome in January 2023, how could I not try to see a notorious villa […]
Hard-Edge traces the line back for geometric abstraction
It’s easy to take starkly geometric styles for granted. They’re something that we spend our foundational years learning the names of, counting the sides of, and using them as reference […]
