David McAllister

Production & associate editor @prospect_uk

[Prospect @prospect_uk]

The RA’s new exhibition wants us to consider Richard Dadd as an artist, not a psychiatric patient and killer. But you can’t simply separate the work from its circumstances, argues @dfmcallister
https://t.co/g7pRBe9ArX

[Prospect @prospect_uk]

A new exhibition of the artist Richard Dadd’s work is a revelation. @dfmcallister asks: could he have produced these paintings without his institutionalisation?
https://t.co/g7pRBe9ArX

[The London Magazine @TheLondonMag]

Reviews: Jack Barron on Seamus Heaney (@FaberBooks); @dfmcallister on The Complete C Comics by Joe Brainard; Paul Hammond on The Land of Sweet Forever by Harper Lee (@HutchHeinemann); and @GuyStagg on The Silver Book by Olivia Laing.

Order here: https://t.co/WUO4jfdR7T

[David McAllister @dfmcallister]

My latest for @prospect_uk, on @Tate's survey of Ithell Colquhoun, one of this year's highlights on the exhibition calendar:

https://t.co/bOPrd5Cyjw

[David McAllister @dfmcallister]

@ewangibbs Also find it funny he quotes from that Orwell essay in which Orwell himself cannot understand why Scots would feel irritated about being called English – it being, of course, a synonym for British.

[Prospect @prospect_uk]

Architect Annabelle Selldorf responds to critics of her redesign of the National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing.

In conversation with @dfmcallister: https://t.co/hRW8prSN85

[David McAllister @dfmcallister]

Got a piece in this... now with added tote !

[The London Magazine @TheLondonMag]

There are still a few copies of the April / May issue left. With our new issue and tote bag bundle, you can save 20% on the cost of our current issue and the bespoke TLM tote.

Order here: https://t.co/fzJgKWAgCv

[David McAllister @dfmcallister]

My latest for @prospect_uk – on assessing Jack Vettriano's legacy as perhaps one of the best bad artists there ever was:

https://t.co/BXe9mBHNLt

[David McAllister @dfmcallister]

Things afoot!

[The London Magazine @TheLondonMag]

Featuring: Sara Ahmad on the 7/7 bombings, twenty years on; @kasralang on Joseph Conrad and Hisham Matar; @helenarambles on Mary Toft and ‘micro-histories’; @dfmcallister on modes of reading; and @stephenson_pj on Paris and Georges Perec.

Pre-order here: https://t.co/CJ2V7rbq8d

[David McAllister @dfmcallister]

My latest for the New Humanist – inside this (extremely worth seeing) show of early digital art at the Tate!

[New Humanist @NewHumanist]

✨ New online:

@dfmcallister takes us into the ether as we journey through the history of digital art at the Tate

https://t.co/pmt9emJrY6

[David McAllister @dfmcallister]

More than deserved!

[Republic of Consciousness Prize @PrizeRofc]

Congratulations to @LesFugitives for being long listed for the 2025 Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses

[David McAllister @dfmcallister]

For the latest issue of @prospect_uk I spoke to Ai Weiwei about what he's doing with 30 tonnes of buttons, the importance of privacy for art-making and why he thinks artificial intelligence will never supplant human creativity

https://t.co/txTuESgmIo

[David McAllister @dfmcallister]

Going in strong with my first ever starred book review here

[The sunny side of Franz Kafka @AmschelKavka]

There is still time and therefore hope.

Franz Kafka, 1912.

[David McAllister @dfmcallister]

Super excited to contribute to
@_TheLondoner – and to shed light on the London of this extremely underrated group of 20th-century artists !
https://t.co/zNHwG8seDw

[David Barnett @davidmbarnett]

My Halloween treat to you… the folk horror revival, with Andrew Michael Hurley, @mjpcuervo of Hellebore, Steve Patterson of the Falmouth Museum of Magic & Folklore, and Anna and Des from Leeds, who like to wear animal masks and watch human sacrifice…

https://t.co/TlC0iZKlhn

[David McAllister @dfmcallister]

Managed to keep myself to just one pubic-related pun for this feature on the intimitable @thewhitepube, in the latest @prospect_uk

https://t.co/2Hf8F13l1g

[David McAllister @dfmcallister]

Within the space of a year, Westminster council spent over £28m on temporary accommodation. Extraordinary expose here on one of the most scandalous systems in local government:

https://t.co/I4wYvkbBOk

[David McAllister @dfmcallister]

Stop what you're doing right now because this is extremely important: I, too, have written about Van Gogh

https://t.co/BiRZaiyxMn

[Prospect @prospect_uk]

📚@pghoskin on @doctor_oxford’s STORY OF A HEART
📚@dfmcallister on Sue Prideaux’s WILD THING
📚@pghoskin on @sarahrainsford’s GOODBYE TO RUSSIA
📚@HenryEOliver on @DanaGioiaPoet’s POETRY AS ENCHANTMENT
📚@LucyScholes on @LizStrout’s TELL ME EVERYTHING
https://t.co/Mlc8L5oJ95