Thomas Houseago – Hauser and Wirth, London
As Thomas Houseago takes over both the North and South galleries of Hauser and Wirth London with two exhibitions “I’ll be your sister” and “Special Brew” it offers us a breadth of opportunity to further […]
Art books
Between the Pages: Contemporary Japanese Photobooks
The current exhibition in the reopened Photographers’ Gallery, Contemporary Japanese Photobooks, isn’t your average exhibition. Instead of the usual ‘do not touch’ signs, you are encouraged to don a pair of white gloves (provided by the gallery) and […]
Review: The Metropolis Organism by Frank Vitale
The metaphor of the city as organic matter is by no means a new one. In ancient Greece, Aristophanes’s Lysistrata, compared classical Athens to a tangle of wool with the insistence that all imperfections, ‘knots’, […]
Diary of a novelist – Design and the art of the book
There is much prevailing wisdom that tells us people fall into distinct categories with regards to their ways of thinking; you are either verbal, visual, aural or numerical (or that’s the gist anyway – there’s […]