Pankaj Mishra’s ‘Bland Fanatics’ considers the hustlers, bumblers and ‘chumocrats’ that fill our public intellectual life, and the enduring language of imperialism https://t.co/mPiKyFMf4k
Pankaj Mishra’s collection of essays ‘Bland Fanatics’ considers the hustlers and ‘chumocrats’ that fill our public intellectual life https://t.co/mPiKyG3QsU
The pioneering photographer Gordon Parks’s documentation of discrimination, violence and a system that forced compliance, presages today’s prison industrial complex https://t.co/kd6ZhG3rnG
‘I’m fed up with painting, I can tell you.’ From the archive – L.S. Lowry spills all about art school, laziness, the critics who attacked his ‘figures like insects’ and why he feels so lonely: https://t.co/3I3gbBShPO
‘We might fondly cling to the notion of artists as risk-takers; the reality, for observers, is that artists are held back or are holding back’. @MartinLHerbert on courage and the artworld: https://t.co/VYFPpG8jF5
‘Where’s my M.B.E.? Where’s the retrospective at the Whitechapel?’ F.N. Souza in May 1966 on alcoholism, the native jealousies of the British artworld, and life as a compulsive painter: https://t.co/cUbOOe9K7K
The latest edition of ‘Subject, Object, Verb’, our podcast hosted by Ross Simonini, features music from Farah Al Qasimi, Patrick Langley on telephone art, a performance by Angharad Williams, and painter Josh Smith on the art of self-isolation. Listen now: https://t.co/ajRJaJgHfO
‘Where’s my M.B.E.? Where’s the retrospective at the Whitechapel?’ F.N. Souza in May 1966 on alcoholism, the native jealousies of the British artworld, and life as a compulsive painter: https://t.co/cUbOOe9K7K
‘I wasn’t looking for risk, but I obviously needed the risk. There is a certain tension that exists with the risk.’ An interview with Roman Signer: https://t.co/H4iZLwmiWt
I wrote another opinion piece for @ArtReview_ – on attention, fishing, Jenny Odell, graveyards, the size of the artworld, etc – and they chose a very good illustration https://t.co/0G9f8QUnfT
For ArtReview's new website, Ben Eastham on the pleasures of home viewing.
Image: Chantal Akerman, No Home Movie (still), 2015. https://t.co/pwQTND5gQa