Focus on Ability: The Importance of Outsider Art Institutions in Australia

In the mid-1940s, French painter Jean Dubuffet coined the term Art Brut, or ‘Raw Art’, which he conceptualised as works Continue reading →

Sonora 128: speaking to 21 million

Surveying the landscape of Mexico City it is possible to categorise the city’s billboards into three distinct breeds. The first Continue reading →

Curating Queerness as an Activist Practice

In July 1989, several months after the death of Robert Mapplethorpe, his retrospective exhibition The Perfect Moment was due to Continue reading →

Art Basel Hong Kong

The art fair is a strangely modern phenomenon and it is stranger still when one sees a Joseph Beuys felt Continue reading →

Curating in the Dark Dank (Part II)

Introduction The intentions for the Constellation project held in the Undercroft Gallery, Norwich, outlined in Curating in the Dark (Part Continue reading →

An Open Air Gallery

In 2014 an ambitious and innovative project was born. Its target is to revitalise a wounded territory and to create Continue reading →

Underground Curating: An Interview with Robert Gordon McHarg III, Subway Gallery

The unexpected on a rainy, boring day. It was mid March, I was going to the Lisson Gallery, close to Continue reading →

WINDOW SPACE

Honking cars, garbage trucks, sirens of ambulances, trauma helicopters, continuous buzzing of the extraction systems and the constant smell of Continue reading →