Networks done three ways
I originally wrote this article for Line Magazine‘s online edition. I reproduce it here partly for the sake of self-promotion and partly to say that Line’s ‘Alternative Strategies’ issue is […]
I originally wrote this article for Line Magazine‘s online edition. I reproduce it here partly for the sake of self-promotion and partly to say that Line’s ‘Alternative Strategies’ issue is […]
Earlier this month, Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum opened an exhibition entitled “Pioneering Painters: The Glasgow Boys 1880 – 1900.” On the whole, I tend not to agree with […]
It was fifteen days into the Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art’s exhibition ‘multi-story‘ that the news arrived concerning Serguei Serykh, a resident of the city’s Red Road estate who was […]
No, no, NO! It’s hard to know where to begin criticising Anish Kapoor’s projected ‘ArcelorMittal Orbit‘, a 115-metre tall red steel tower to be constructed on the site of London’s […]
The abhorrence of suburbia and modern housing estates has become a central theme of (mostly American) teen-oriented film and music over the past twenty years. Consequently, criticisms of a supposed […]
For months now I’ve been interested in the possibility of an idea of ‘simple urban contentment’, expressed in the same way as ‘simple country contentment’. The latter is a firmly […]
Reading about Josep Maria Jujol’s ceramic mosaics for Antoni Gaudi’s Park Güell recently, I came across a number of observations that Jujol’s technique of collaging broken pottery found around the […]