£21 Worth of Crap: On Rose Wylie and the Limits of Taste
Whilst caught up in the loop of doomscrolling on Instagram, I came across an interesting reel posted by a woman who was walking through the rooms of the Rose Wylie’s exhibition at the Royal Academy; expressing her discontent with the artist’s painting, and arguing that £21 is too much of a price for this ‘crap’.…
Why NFTs Failed as a Digital Art Medium
In his seminal work, Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Walter Benjamin makes the argument that there is a quality to the work as a material object that is absent when the formal content alone is reproduced and circulated; this, he names the ‘aura’ of the work. The reproduced work is inherently non-auratic; ‘aura’…
Public Art and The Politics of Perception
Walking around in London, you can’t help but notice the amount of statues within our public parks, squares and streets. Although I don’t always take note of each individual being commemorated, I know that a largely singular narrative is being perpetuated in these sculptures: the seeming normalcy of white maleness. This is not just my…
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