Alternative Art Spaces
Naked and Proud: This Is What It’s Like to Be a Life Model (2020)
In a Time of Social Isolation, Mail Art Offers Invaluable Human Connection (2020)
“Boring!” The Kids Reflect on Steve McQueen’s Year 3 Project (2020)
A Supermarket, a Hairdresser and Even a Fridge Are Being Used to Exhibit Art (2019)
The Secret Lives of Stock Photo Models (2019)
The Making of a Truly Radical Arts Centre, Buried in the British Countryside (2019)
Politics + Protest
What Is the Future for an Art World Torn Apart By Commerce Over Community? (2020)
How Protesters in Hong Kong Use Illustration to Make Their Voices Heard (2020)
Three Years Later: Khadija Saye, Grenfell and the Art World’s Problem with Race (2020)
In Richard Mosse’s Pink Congo, Death Is More Than Just a Number (2020)
The Anonymous Design Collective Out to Change the Visual Language of Protest (2020)
Coca-Cola Meets China: Ai Weiwei’s Subversive Symbolism (2019)
Wolfgang Tillmans’ Anti-Brexit Posters Make the Personal Into the Political (2019)
Money
Labour of Love: Does It Ever Make Sense to Work for Free? (2021)
Creative Jobs Sell Us a Lifestyle, But All I Want Is to Make a Living (2020)
What Do You Lose When Creativity Becomes a Commodity? (2020)
Art or Commerce? Supreme and the Unholy Power of an Iconic Logo (2020)
Prime Real Estate? When the Art World and Gentrification Got Into Bed Together (2019)
Out of Office: The Artists Interrogating the Workplace (2019)
The Internet + Digital
Google Reviews Can Be as Compelling as Any TV Drama (2021)
Domestic Bliss? How The Sims Made a Virtue of Staying In (2020)
Chatroulette Defined a Distanced Era of Awkward Zoom Chats and Dick Pics (2020)
How Hilma Af Klint Became the Artist of the Instagram Generation (2019)
In Praise of the Botched “Potato Christ” Restoration (2019)
Pointless Profundity? How Twitter Art Bots Are Shaking Up Visual Culture (2019)
How the Ikea Monkey in a Sheepskin Jacket Changed Visual Culture Forever (2019)
How Break Down by Michael Landy Is Subverted in the Digital Age (2018)
Visual Culture
The Sad Irony of Juergen Teller’s “Lazy” W Magazine Shoot (2021)
Hot Stuff: The Rise and Rise of the Lao Gan Ma Brand (2021)
Why Are Ed Templeton’s Teenage Smokers Still So Damned Cool? (2021)
How Middle Class Modernism Took Over the World (2020)
The Seductive Allure of the Diner (2019)
Hedge Your Bets: The Timeless Pleasure of Topiary (2019)
Warning: Fragile? The Artists Tearing Up Polystyrene (2019)
Sargy Mann Painted Through Blindness to Capture Portraits Infused with Light (2019)
True or False? Luigi Ghirri’s Explorations in the Unreal (2018)
Sex + Gender
Jeff Koons’ Made in Heaven Sells Sex as the Ultimate Commodity (2020)
The American Apparel Adverts Capture the Rise and Fall of the Male Gaze (2019)
April Dawn Alison Casts Light On the Identities That We Hide Away (2019)
Porn in Plain Sight? The Subversive Tactics of Inappropriate Ceramics (2019)
The Radical Italian Artist Who Married Her Male Pseudonym (2019)
Defiantly Joyful Portraits of a Transgender Community at Work and Play (2019)
Power Play: Erotic Images of Men (2018)
Great Big Boobs: The Joyful Vulgarity of John Currin (2018)
Spontaneous and Human Snapshots of 1980s Queer London (2018)