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Art Talks | The Forgetting of Proper Names

In the same week that film director David Cronenberg remarked that: “Sigmund Freud has never been more relevant” – whilst promoting his new movie A Dangerous Method based on the psychoanalysis founder’s work and relationships – we sat down to speak to artist Agnieszka Polska whose animated film The Forgetting of Proper Names is...

Art Talks | Tim Barber: Untitled Photographs

There’s something magical about photo-curator Tim Barber’s photographs – the focus of his latest book Untitled Photographs, which launches tomorrow at Mother...
In Pictures | In Numbers: Serial Publications by Artists Since 1955

The ICA will be the first to survey and define a neglected art form that is neither artists’ book nor ephemera, but is entirely its own unique object. Radical,...
Who, What, Why | Raarr at The Book Club

Tonight animals, cartoons and children join forces to create Raarr, an eclectic melange of art and charity at London’s Book Club...
Art Talks | 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero

Down at Tallinn’s port a crowd gathered several days before Christmas for the once-only screening of 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero, the brainchild of...

AnOther's Lovers | Life-sized Dollhouse by Heather Benning

If someone had told you as a child, they could magic your dollhouse into a life-sized version, it surely would've made all of your dreams come true. Canadian...
In Pictures | Weegee: Murder Is My Business

Timeliness is vital to the success of any photojournalist and Arthur Fellig, better known as Weegee, possessed it in abundance. Between 1935 and 1946, Weegee...
Another Good Book | Postmodernism, Style and Subversion, 1970-1990

"Tomorrow’s Been Cancelled Due to Lack of Interest", reads the title to Derek Jarmen’s chapter in Postmodernism. Taken from his 1987 film The Last of England,...
In Pictures | Lloyd Johnson: The Modern Outfitter

If music gives each generation its beat (voice, context), iconic clothes riff off it. That’s the legacy of style as seen through subcultures in the UK...
Art Talks | Simone Lueck: The Once and Future Queens

Today, Liverpool's Open Eye Gallery sees the opening of a new exhibition celebrating and questioning the mutating nature of fame, curated by Martin Parr,...
State of the Art | Javier Peres

The art world’s arch-maverick tastemaker Javier Peres discovered, exhibited and represented some of the most influential and notorious artists of the last...
Art Talks | Adam Dix – Science Fiction Futures?

Stemming from a lifelong obsession with printed matter dating back to the 1950s, Adam Dix seeks to encapsulate the conflict between the fervent desire for new...
Art Talks | Brit Marling on Another Earth

Young and beautiful, it would be easy to dismiss actress Brit Marling as yet another Hollywood starlet striding headlong to box office success on the back of...