The Arts Society, May 2017 For a band who put the mind-altering mayhem of psychedelic music on the map, the entrance to Pink Floyd’s first international retrospective seems surprisingly literal. But the Victoria and Albert […]
At the Rafah Crossing between Gaza and Egypt, Palestinians are peering through a towering border gate. What they’re looking at isn’t initially clear in Rosalind Nashashibi’s short film Electrical Gaza, but then, the 43-year-old British […]
Bahman Mohassess (1931–2010), paper collage, 2009. © The Trustees of the British Museum The National, April 2015 In the same week that the British Museum announced plans for a major new gallery dedicated to the Islamic […]
The National, March 2015 Marcus Lyon is racing up the dramatic, sweeping Nelson staircase in London’s Somerset House, the spectacular neoclassical building on the banks of the Thames that is exhibiting some of his awe-inspiring […]
The National, March 2015 It’s the kind of painting that can infuriate the more casual art follower. Walk into the Whitechapel Gallery in London and it’s there, almost confrontational in its simplicity. A solid black […]