If one culprit looms behind these shifts, it is the early digital consensus that everything should be free

Cultural observations have always been going viral, from the oral cultures of the ancient world to the have always been going viral, from the oral cultures of the ancient world to the visual cultures...

The visual artist Corban Walker on his middle name, what makes him angry, and how work gives him joy

The visual artist Corban Walker on his middle name, what makes him angry, and how work gives him joy

[un]inhabited initials [after Holbein] is a cross genre essay in images and words explorating Hans Holbein the Younger’s 1524 Alphabet with Dance of Death. [un]inhabited initials [after Holbein] was p...

Until you meticulously quantify how the hours, days and weeks of your life are really being spent, you can’t possibly know for sure. The BIA survey gave me that knowledge

[un]inhabited initials [after Holbein] is a cross genre essay in images and words explorating Hans Holbein the Younger’s 1524 Alphabet with Dance of Death. [un]inhabited initials [after Holbein] was p...

Radical English director who clashed with the BBC over his ‘horrifying’ film about nuclear war, was forced to look abroad to continue working Peter Watkins, the radical British film-maker who won an Oscar for his controversial drama-documentary The War Game, about a nuclear attack on Britain, has died aged 90. His son Patrick confirmed that he died on Thursday, but no cause of death has been given. Watkins was an uncompromising figure who clashed with the BBC after the latter failed to show The War Game on broadcast TV, and subsequently led a peripatetic film-making existence, looking overseas for backing. He was wary of the press, in a rare interview he spoke to the Guardian in 2000, saying he was “someone who has been working for 30 years to help shift the power balance between public and TV”. He added: “Had TV taken an alternative direction during the 1960s and 1970s and worked in a more open way, global society today would be vastly more humane and just.” Continue reading...

Self-Portrait as a Drowned Man (The Willows) 2011 Silicone; fibreglass; hair; clothing; mixed media. As the title may suggest to some, this work is...

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