Are We Killing Time or Is Time Killing Us?
I still remember my astonishment at stumbling across the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam many years ago and encountering The Beanery by Edward Kienholz. A three-dimensional walk-in installation, I think it’s one of the most singular artworks of the late 20th-century.
Turner’s Vision: The Release of Elemental Forces
The reports that the new £20 note issued by the Bank of England features one of JMW Turner's most celebrated paintings, The Fighting Temeraire, invites an interesting reflection on how we understand our history.
A Cloudburst of Material Possessions: A Message for Our Times?
Leonardo da Vinci’s achievements as a painter often overshadow his skill in other fields. The breadth of his curiosity was simply astonishing. He was the quintessential Renaissance man: inventor, engineer, anatomist and architect. As Freud once noted, Leonardo was “like a man who awoke too early in the darkness, while the others were all still asleep.”