Gumball Machine, by Wayne Thiebaud By Nick Moss How do you paint the fire while being consumed by the flames? What possibilities exist for artistic practice to... Continue reading
By Jack Clarke “I think belonging is really about participating, I suppose, having a stake in the place that you are in, right?” – Ali Al-Jamri on... Continue reading
Our friends at Manifesto Press Co-op have released Hans Hess: Selected Writings as a new series of audiobooks — a landmark moment bringing Marxist art criticism vividly... Continue reading
Photo credit: Marco Anelli By Jack Clarke Factory International looks like it was dropped from the sky by some intergalactic logistics company. A monument to the future... Continue reading
At Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery until 13th December By Peter Shukie Blackburn Museum’s The Nature of Gothic offers up treasures of heritage: William Morris’s wallpapers, Rossetti’s... Continue reading
Liberty’s Legacy, by Hoda Amer The Statue of Liberty is celebrated in the US as an icon of freedom and independence. The original design of the Statue... Continue reading
All images by Jack Clarke and Max Farrar ‘Cultural democracy isn’t just a buzzword. It’s a reckoning’ says Jack Clarke I’d barely been in the door five... Continue reading
Manifesto Press is about to publish the third volume of the writings of Hans Hess, titled ‘Art and Ideology’. We believe that whilst art plays a central... Continue reading
All images courtesy of the artist By Jack Clarke I arrived in Doncaster on one of those sticky, humid Fridays where everything feels like it’s wearing a... Continue reading