Browsing: Arts
Is Disneyland art, however? There has been a growing desire to view Disneyland as art in recent years. Despite its…
Gartside’s essay, modestly titled Essay, was followed three years later in 1808 by a revised version that she boldly rechristened…
Surrealism was founded with the goal of subverting the foundations of modern civilisation. Surrealism promised intellectual liberty to its followers…
This was the theory anyway. In November 1965, however, a 61 year-old former bus driver from Newcastle upon Tyne in…
Emmeline Pankhurst, wearing white, walked out to lead the Women’s Social and Political Union. She was there to support votes…
In 17th Century France’s Royal Academy established a hierarchy of genres that made portraiture second only to history paintings. This…
Artists fighting racism(Image credit: Tam Joseph/ Wolverhampton Art Gallery)Art has shown us the stark realities of Caribbean-British culture over the…
George Condo’s 2006 painting, Dreams and Nightmares of the Queen, is grotesquely cartoonish, and doesn’t really bear any resemblance to…
Amazing ways Victorians flirted(Image credit: Chicago Art Institute)Holly Williams writes about a lesser-known form of art that allowed British aristocracy…
Lubaina Himid – The artist who denigrates white privilege(Image credit: Private collection/ Lubaina Himid)The painter’s satirical work has always blazed…
