Marcel Duchamp

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Milton Glaser in his studio in New York in 2012. Photograph: Robert Wright/New York Times
Milton Glaser obituary: I Love NY mastermind who changed US visual culture

Milton Glaser Born: June 26th, 1929 Died: June 26th, 2020 Milton Glaser, a graphic designer who changed the vocabulary of American visual culture in (...)

Elaine Hoey, Imaginary_State(s), 2019, live virtual reality performance/installation, 12 mins. Photograph: Elaine Hoey
Why does the heart want what it wants? Desire at Imma

Overwhelming passion, tons of sex, or a brand new kitchen: desire can manifest in many forms. When the book, des/Ire: Designing Houses for Contemporar(...)

Shark tank: Damien Hirst with his piece Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living in 2013. Photograph: Natalie Naccache/New York Times
From Damien Hirst to Marcel Duchamp, what makes artists tick?

Are artists different? Some lines from Thomas Kinsella are stuck in my mind: “I wonder whether one expects/ Flowing tie or expert sex …/ Of poets any (...)

Banksy’s Girl With Balloon is destroyed moments after being sold for more than £1m. Photograph: PA Banksy’s Girl With Balloon is destroyed moments after being sold for more than £1m. Photograph: PA
Banksy’s greatest work of art: putting £1m through the shredder

The moment I love most in the video Banksy has released of his latest art stunt is when a bespectacled man with the intelligent, well-groomed air of a(...)

Oona Doherty’s Hard to Be Soft – A Belfast Prayer at Dublin Dance Festival. PR photograph: Luca Truffarelli
In the new theatre space, there’s no room for an emotional vacuum
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In 2014 I was asked to take part in a theatre conference at NUI Galway called “Pushing Form”. My paper was on my own experimental work, exploring form(...)

Various Artists: Brian’s Imaginary Jukebox review – For the Eno obsessives

“Imagine,” it blurbs on the inside cover of this perceptive, often illuminating double album, “if Eno had a jukebox. Maybe two jukeboxes. One for stra(...)

Issue 5+6 of Aspen magazine: edited and designed by Brian O’Doherty in 1967, it challenged the idea of magazines and art. Photograph: © Aspen Magazine/Authors
How a magazine became a piece of experimental art

What is it? Aspen 5+6 is a double issue of the experimental magazine which appeared in just 10 instalments between 1965 and 1971. The double issue wa(...)

Unspeakably disgusting toilet scene: Ewan McGregor as Renton in Trainspotting (1996) Weekend Review January 2017. Ewan McGregor as Renton in the Danny Boyle film Trainspotting, from 1996.
Urine for a treat. It’s World Toilet Day today

Why was Piglet staring down the toilet? He was looking for Pooh. Today, November 19th is Toilet Day. Urine for a treat. So what should we all do to ce(...)

Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani, Freedom of Movement, film still, at the MART Gallery
Remembering when Abebe Bikila took a blistering run at Fascism

Freedom of Movement – Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani ★★★ The Mart Gallery What do we think of when we hear the word “race”? In Nina Fischer &(...)

Artist Brian O’Doherty: ‘Now that I’ve got less permanent, I would like to do some permanent installations.’ Photograph: George Tatge
Brian O’Doherty: ‘Ireland does not appreciate its foreign achievers’

In Brian O’Doherty’s studio there is a large photograph dating from 2002. Five figures are posed against a white background: Brian O’Doherty, William (...)

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