Art

Where did Britain’s legendary chalk figures come from?

Dabbling in cod archaeology and potted mythologies

Apr 15 •

Stop getting mad about AI art

This moral panic isn’t worthy of your anger

Apr 5 •

My favourite photographer takes photos of fat blokes

Cankles and melty ice creams abound in the work of Martin Parr, Britain’s greatest living photographer

Mar 15 •

A visit to Sicily’s haunting concrete ghost town

Gibellina was flattened by a massive earthquake in 1968. Fifty years later, a sprawling work of land art has finally been completed to commemorate the…

Sep 13, 2024 •

‘Would you die for Ireland?’ Notes on a masterpiece of video art

Irishness – like Britishness – has changed radically even since artist John Byrne posed the ultimate question to Irish men and women in 2003

Aug 9, 2024 •

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