Look at me / (don’t look at me) / Look at me / (don’t look at me) / Look at me don’t look at me look at me look at me don’t look at me don’t / look / (Look) / (Don’t look) / I can’t stand it if you don’t look / Look / Look / Please / Stop.
In this passage from Kate Zambreno’s 2011 novel Green Girl, a dynamic usually obscured from the project of female authorship is exposed. Zambreno’s…
Brains & Bowels
Dec 11 / Rob Oldham
Irony (mostly)
Once I went to a nightclub with some friends. I bought a ticket in advance because I still carry this…
Now & Then
Aug 14 / Aron Penczu
Framing Son of Saul
All art since the Shoah has been ethically contested, and art taking the Holocaust as its object occupies uniquely unstable…
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Jul 19 / Rivkah Brown
Black Bodies Matter
The privileging of ‘hard news’ – national and global politics, business and financial markets – has mired journalism in the…
Brains & Bowels
May 1 / Archie Cornish
Head Over Heels: the Playful Astronaut
At Lunchtime GMT, 15 January this year, I watched Tim Peake’s spacewalk. Like many live transmissions, the first venture into…
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Apr 10 / Francis Blagburn
‘Touch My Soul’: Shia LaBeouf and the Art of Connecting
“Real artists rarely wear bags on their heads.” So wrote Jonathan Jones, the Guardian’s art critic, of Shia LaBeouf’s first performance…
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Mar 13 / Kirsten Tambling
Country Shade and Lemonade: The Beach Boys and the Fête Galante
Country shade and lemonade Guess I’m slowing down It’s a turned back world With a local girl In a smaller…
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Feb 2 / Sadhbh O'Sullivan
‘The One with the Boobies’ – Sexism, Phonaesthetics and the Language of Anatomy
For a show that ended 12 years ago people really do talk about Friends constantly, don’t they? At the moment…
Ink & Other Animals
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“Would you have married her?”: on ‘Divers’ and ’45 Years’
And it pains me to say, I was wrong. Love is not a symptom of time time is just a…
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Dec 13 / Ben Pope
Size Matters
In July of this year Marvel Studios released the superhero-heist caper Antman. In the film, a penniless thief played by comedy-millionaire Paul…
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Dec 6 / Jake Farrell
“What is a lasagne?”: Nostalgia, Pastiche and Working Class Experience
When Shelagh Delaney’s play A Taste of Honey premiered in 1957, it was remarkable for its abrupt rejection of the…
Brains & Bowels
Nov 15 / Archie Cornish
Floating Signifiers: Thoughts on the Figure
Last year I was walking along a beach towards a Martello tower, when I saw a figure perched on its…
Fields & Buildings
Nov 5 / Nicholas de Klerk
Accidents of History
The link, in its own abrupt, taciturn way, perhaps brings the Academy into dialogue with this group of buildings. Might…
Brains & Bowels
Oct 18 / Tommy Shane
All the Lonely People: On Urban Invisibility
‘Somehow, you just vanish.’ These are the words of Kristin Scott Thomas, who said in an interview with The Telegraph…
Ink & Other Animals
Oct 11 / Jack Parlett
The Lie of Beauty: Hanya Yanagihara’s ‘A Little Life’
The artist David Wojnarowicz recalls, in a 1989 essay he wrote after his HIV diagnosis, a time he spent ‘standing…
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Sep 28 / Christopher Barrett-Lennard
Black Mountain College: Searching the Self
John Rice sits alone in a modest bedroom at Robert E Lee Hall, a three-story YMCA assembly building in the…
Brains & Bowels
Sep 20 / Ben Pope
‘Café Chocolate’: Teletubbies’ Sublime Horizons
I often tell people that Teletubbies gave me a sense of the sublime. For those of you who by some…
