Creating Monument: Stuart Hall and John Akomfrah
Tomorrow some of the nation’s leading artists, filmmakers and cultural commentators will gather at New Art Exchange in Nottingham to explore the practice of artist-filmmaker John Akomfrah, and the impact Stuart Hall, co-founder of cultural studies in the UK, has made on his work and other visual artists of his generation. Using Akomfrah’ latest work...
Charlie Phillips: The Urban Eye
Street life, interracial relationships, fashion, Carnival and images of bohemia are captured in Charlie Phillips’ latest exhibition Charlie Phillips: The Urban Eye. The collection of striking ‘captured moments’ in his photographic collection not only form part of a constructed and contested mythology of Notting Hill neighbourhoods in West London during the late 1950s and 1960s...
What Can We Learn From Medieval Torture Instruments?
In a work by Venetian artist Sebastiano Del Piombo titled The Martyrdom of St Agatha (1519), the talented painter captures excruciating pain in the face of St Agatha of Sicily. In the painting, St Agatha is being tortured by Breast-Rippers – gruesome metal devices used commonly in Germany and France during medieval times to rip off women’s breasts....
Hopeful Beginning to the End
I could hear a church with hot pink doors purring as I walked towards it through the ‘wrong side of town’ in Gainsborough, East Midlands. So it was these pulsating vibrations that introduced me to the latest exhibition, End of Ends, at x-church – a deconsecrated church built in 1882 and transformed into a dedicated...
