Given that 25 years ago China didn’t have a term for a designer, let alone a design industry, the tale of how rapidly the populous nation got to ‘China Design Now’ makes the...
Alfredo Jaar is a formidable political artist. He’s faked a million passports, built and burnt down a museum, and outed the US seizure of all satellite images of Afghanistan during its 2001...
The subject matter of Mie Olise Kjærgaard’s paintings pretty much defines despondency: a former Russian settlement in the frozen arctic, its jerry-built wooden buildings on stilts now...
‘Please, DO NOT touch the sculptures’ warns a concerned gallery assistant at the reception of this tucked-away upstairs space. His irritating rebuke is easily forgiven when stumbling...
A living city both decays and grows at once. Buildings which are old and falling down exist in the shadow of brand new developments, and the recent lies derelict while the ancient remains active....
Back in fashionable 1995 the young painter A… M… was finishing his MA at Goldsmiths College. He exercised his right to ask for a tutorial from any painter of his choosing....
A scruffy caravan is pulled by a ’70s Mercedes through the streets of Münster, Westphalia. We see it travel up and down German high streets and flyovers, pull into rural roads and...
‘Uncertified Documents’ is clever nomenclature for Peter Kennard’s show of political dissemblage. His collaged photos of hated world leaders – scalpelled into pigs or forced...
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